[STR-2953] tiles:insert with beanName and tiles-defs.xml causes JspException

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.3.5
• Component/s: Tiles 1 Plugin
• Environment: Struts 1.3.5, Windows, Eclipse, Weblogic, Intel
• Flags: Important
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Husleag Dumitru
• Created: 29/Sep/06 13:30
• Updated: 29/Sep/06 13:30

Description

The tutorial is wrong !?

On page http://struts.apache.org/1.3.5/struts-tiles/examples.html
there is an example page built with a tile definition in a tiles-defs.xml file
which uses

<tiles:insert beanName="templateDefinition" />

This causes an exception

javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Error - Tag Insert : No value defined for bean 'tiles.login' with property 'null' in scope 'null'.
at org.apache.struts.tiles.taglib.InsertTag.processBean(Ljava.lang.String;Ljava.lang.String;Ljava.lang.String;)Lorg.apache.struts.tiles.taglib.InsertTag$TagHandler;(InsertTag.java:664)
at org.apache.struts.tiles.taglib.InsertTag.createTagHandler()Lorg.apache.struts.tiles.taglib.InsertTag$TagHandler;(InsertTag.java:480)
at org.apache.struts.tiles.taglib.InsertTag.doStartTag()I(InsertTag.java:438)
at jsp_servlet._login._jspService(Ljavax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;Ljavax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;)V(_login.java:144)
at weblogic.servlet.jsp.JspBase.service(Ljavax.servlet.ServletRequest;Ljavax.servlet.ServletResponse;)V(JspBase.java:33)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl$ServletInvocationAction.run()Ljava.lang.Object;(ServletStubImpl.java:996)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(Ljavax.servlet.ServletRequest;Ljavax.servlet.ServletResponse;Lweblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl;)V(ServletStubImpl.java:419)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(Ljavax.servlet.ServletRequest;Ljavax.servlet.ServletResponse;Lweblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl;)V(ServletStubImpl.java:463)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(Ljavax.servlet.ServletRequest;Ljavax.servlet.ServletResponse;)V(ServletStubImpl.java:315)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.RequestDispatcherImpl.forward(Ljavax.servlet.ServletRequest;Ljavax.servlet.ServletResponse;)V(RequestDispatcherImpl.java:312)
at weblogic.servlet.jsp.PageContextImpl.forward(Ljava.lang.String;)V(PageContextImpl.java:150)
at jsp_servlet._index._jspService(Ljavax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;Ljavax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;)V(_index.java:122)
at weblogic.servlet.jsp.JspBase.service(Ljavax.servlet.ServletRequest;Ljavax.servlet.ServletResponse;)V(JspBase.java:33)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl$ServletInvocationAction.run()Ljava.lang.Object;(ServletStubImpl.java:996)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(Ljavax.servlet.ServletRequest;Ljavax.servlet.ServletResponse;Lweblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl;)V(ServletStubImpl.java:419)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(Ljavax.servlet.ServletRequest;Ljavax.servlet.ServletResponse;Lweblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl;)V(ServletStubImpl.java:463)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(Ljavax.servlet.ServletRequest;Ljavax.servlet.ServletResponse;)V(ServletStubImpl.java:315)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext$ServletInvocationAction.run()Ljava.lang.Object;(WebAppServletContext.java:6452)
at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(Lweblogic.security.subject.AbstractSubject;Ljava.security.PrivilegedAction;)Ljava.lang.Object;(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321)
at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(Lweblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject;Lweblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject;Ljava.security.PrivilegedAction;)Ljava.lang.Object;(SecurityManager.java:118)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.invokeServlet(Lweblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl;Lweblogic.servlet.internal.ServletResponseImpl;)V(WebAppServletContext.java:3661)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.execute(Lweblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread;)V(ServletRequestImpl.java:2630)
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.execute(Lweblogic.kernel.ExecuteRequest;)V(ExecuteThread.java:219)
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.run()V(ExecuteThread.java:178)
at java.lang.Thread.startThreadFromVM(Ljava.lang.Thread;)V(Unknown Source)

BUT !!! it works if you replace beanName with definition like this:

<tiles:insert definition="templateDefinition" />