[TILES-220] [tiles] use of wildcard in tiles-defs.xml as for wildcard mappings

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.4
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.0
• Component/s: tiles-core

Environment

Operating System: other
Platform: Other

• Bugzilla Id: 31034
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Antonio Petrelli
• Reporter: nicolas de loof
• Created: 03/Sep/04 17:02
• Updated: 02/May/13 02:28
• Resolved: 27/Jun/08 19:16

Description

Wildcard mappings is a interesting new feature in struts 1.2.x. This enhancement
allow to use wildcard in tiles definition too like the following :

<definition name="tiles:test.*" path="/testlayout.jsp">
<put name="testName" value="

{1}"/>
<put name="def" value="tiles:another.definition.{1}

" type="definition"/>
</definition>

Using this, you can build a full wildcard request handling when adding a mapping
in struts-config :

<action path="/Test*"
forward="tiles:test.

{1}

"/>

Please note : properties are replaced in attributes of the definition only for
put elements. It may require a little bit more coding in
DefinitionsFactory.getDefinition() to add putlist support.

Issue Links

• depends upon: TILES-280 Move inheritance resolution from UrlDefinitionsFactory to a resolving LocaleUrlDefinitionDao
• depends upon: TILES-256 Create a demand-driven definitions factory