[TILES-65] Split <tiles:insert> into specialized tags

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: tiles-core

Environment

N/A (design issue)

• Assignee: Antonio Petrelli
• Reporter: Antonio Petrelli
• Created: 12/Oct/06 11:19
• Updated: 02/May/13 02:28
• Resolved: 27/Oct/06 11:21

Description

The <tiles:insert> tag can lead to confusion because it can insert different things: pages, strings, definitions and attribute.
There is a particular confusion for the attribute, since some people could place it as they place definitions and pages, not remembering that attributes need to be filled.

<tiles:insert> could be split into:

<tiles:insertDefinition>
<tiles:insertTemplate>
<tiles:insertString> (not sure about it).
<tiles:attribute>: it has a different name pattern because attributes need to be "defined" and not "inserted".

Relevant thread:
http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40struts.apache.org/msg24891.html

And the message:
http://www.mail-archive.com/user%40shale.apache.org/msg00663.html

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: TILES-73 Determine which tag attributes should be removed from the TLD
• is related to: TILES-36 Upgrading to the latest snapshot causes NPE if the type attribute is not used with <tiles:insert>