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How to achieve this layout using apache tiles 2?

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Having problems creating such a layout. Controllers trigger dash content, and the layout should be created. Now I have this definitions, and I am blocked.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE tiles-definitions PUBLIC
        "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Tiles Configuration 2.0//EN"
        "http://tiles.apache.org/dtds/tiles-config_2_0.dtd">

<tiles-definitions>

    <definition name="masterLayout" template="/WEB-INF/jsp/layout/master.jsp">
        <put-attribute name="headerInclude" value="" />
        <put-attribute name="body" value="" />
        <put-attribute name="footerInclude" value="" />
    </definition>

    <definition name="dashboardLayout" extends="masterLayout">
        <put-attribute name="body"  value="dashboardLayoutBody" />
    </definition>

    <definition name="dashboardLayoutBody" template="/WEB-INF/jsp/layout/dashboard.jsp">
        <put-attribute name="menu" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/parts/menu.jsp" />
        <put-attribute name="body"/>
    </definition>

    <!-- this page is triggered -->
    <definition name="login_page" extends="masterLayout">
        <put-attribute name="body" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/layout/login.jsp" />
    </definition>

    <!-- this page is triggered -->    
    <definition name="some_page" extends="dashboardLayout">
        <put-attribute name="body" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/content/admin_groups/supervisor.jsp"/>
    </definition>

</tiles-definitions>

master layout has this content

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <!-- Master css, js, meta, tags additions .... -->
    <tiles:insertAttribute name="headerInclude"/>
</head>
<body>
    <tiles:insertAttribute name="body"/>

    <!-- Master css, js, meta, tags additions .... -->
    <tiles:insertAttribute name="footerInclude"/>
</body>
</html>

I need somehow to extend template and also have own template, to include menu there

Solution

  • As a new comer to jsp templating, I didn't realized that I can use jsp:include in parallel with Aapache Tiles, which solved the problem.

    The main problem was that I couldn't include the menu once only in the dashboard layout, and be used everywhere.

    Using only tiles, there is cascade attribute on a put-attribute tag that allow that to be used in other attributes also.

    Keep in mind that cascade needs DOCTYPE tiles-definition minimum version 2.1

    <!DOCTYPE tiles-definitions PUBLIC
        "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Tiles Configuration 2.1//EN"
        "http://tiles.apache.org/dtds/tiles-config_2_1.dtd">