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  1. Tiles
  2. TILES-580

getAsString does not support expressions

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Resolved
    • Minor
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 3.0.4
    • 3.0.5
    • tiles-template
    • None
    • spring 3.2, tomcat 7, windows xp.

    Description

      Looking through the code, I believe getAsString does not currently
      support expressions. That's weird, I believe it should not be difficult
      to implement. Nicolas Le Bas

      getAsString works with value=
      getAsString always returns null with expression=
      while insertAttribute works correctly with both value= and expression=

      the following layout.jsp file succeeds to get the title which is set via value=, while the css and footer which is set via the el functionality fails
      with a nullpointerexception..

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      the error is:
      DEBUG org.apache.tiles.template.GetAsStringModel - Ignoring exception
      java.lang.NullPointerException
      at org.apache.tiles.template.GetAsStringModel.renderAttribute(GetAsStringModel.java:177)
      at org.apache.tiles.template.GetAsStringModel.execute(GetAsStringModel.java:122)
      at org.apache.tiles.jsp.taglib.GetAsStringTag.doTag(GetAsStringTag.java:261)
      at org.apache.jsp.client.default_.layout.layout_jsp._jspx_meth_tiles_005fgetAsString_005f1(layout_jsp.java:258)
      at org.apache.jsp.client.default_.layout.layout_jsp._jspService(layout_jsp.java:132)
      at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
      at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)
      at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:432)
      at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:390)
      at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:334)
      at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)

      =========================================================
      with a tiles_en.xml of:

      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
      <!DOCTYPE tiles-definitions PUBLIC "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Tiles Configuration 3.0//EN" "http://tiles.apache.org/dtds/tiles-config_3_0.dtd">
      <tiles-definitions>
      <definition name="nouser.default.definition" templateExpression="/client/default/layout/layout.jsp">
      <put-attribute name="client" value="${client}"/>
      <put-attribute name="title" value="| Default" />
      <put-attribute name="meta" expression="/client/default/layout/meta.jsp"/>
      <put-attribute name="css" expression="/client/${client}/layout/css/enerwise_v2.css"/>
      <put-attribute name="css_print" expression="/client/${client}/layout/css/em_print.css"/>
      <put-attribute name="header" expression="/client/default/layout/header.jsp"/>
      <put-attribute name="head" expression="/client/default/layout/head.jsp"/>
      <put-attribute name="menu" expression="/client/default/layout/menu.jsp"/>
      <put-attribute name="body" expression="/client/default/layout/body.jsp"/>
      <put-attribute name="footer" expression="/client/${client}/layout/footer.jsp"/>
      </definition>

      <definition name="hello.page" extends="nouser.default.definition">
      <put-attribute name="title" value="| Welcome" />
      <put-attribute name="body" value="/jsp/helloWorld.jsp" />
      </definition>

      </tiles-definitions>

      ========================================================
      layout.jsp:

      <%@taglib uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags" prefix="bean"%>
      <%@taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c"%>
      <%@ taglib uri="http://tiles.apache.org/tags-tiles" prefix="tiles"%>

      <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
      "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

      <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
      <head>
      <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
      <title><bean:message code="label.project" /><tiles:getAsString name="title" /></title> <!-SUCCEEDS using value=->
      <link rel=stylesheet href="<tiles:getAsString name='css' ignore='true' />" type="text/css" /><!-- FAILS using expression = -->
      <link rel=stylesheet href="<tiles:getAsString name='css_print' ignore='true' />" type="text/css" media="print" /><!-- FAILS using expression =-->
      <script src="<%=request.getContextPath()%>/js/CalendarPopup.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
      <script type="text/javascript">document.write(getCalendarStyles());</script>
      <script type="text/javascript" src="<%=request.getContextPath()%>/js/jquery-1.6.4.min.js"></script>
      <script language="javascript1.2" src="<%=request.getContextPath()%>/js/jquery.countdown.min.js"></script>
      </head>
      <body>
      <a name="top"></a>
      <!-- begin wrapper -->
      <div id="wrapper">
      <!-- begin header -->
      <tiles:insertAttribute name="header" />
      <!-- end header -->
      <!-- begin navigation -->
      <tiles:insertAttribute name='menu' />
      <!-- end navigation -->
      <!-- begin content -->
      <div id="content">
      <tiles:insertAttribute name='body' />
      <br />
      <!-- begin footer -->
      <tiles:getAsString name="footer" ignore='true' /> <!-- FAILS using expression =-->
      <tiles:insertAttribute name="footer" ignore='true'/><!-- SUCCEEDS using expression =-->
      <!-- end footer -->
      </div>
      <!-- end content -->
      </div>
      <!-- end wrapper -->
      </body>
      </html>

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            nlebas Nicolas LE BAS
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