dynamic tiles2 definitions with spring 3

[davidwaf]

Hi all,
Am doing some work in Spring 3, together with tiles2. I am using the MVC, and am kind of stuck. I have a method in a controller, defined as :

@RequestMapping("/content/stories/view/{storyid}")
public ModelAndView editStoryPage(HttpServletRequest request, @PathVariable("storyid") int storyid) {
...
}


In my tiles xml definition, how do i dynamically map the {storyid} to a definition: the following is not working

<definition name="content/stories/**" extends="classic.definition">
<put-attribute name="title" value="View story" />
<put-attribute name="body" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/content/stories/viewstory.jsp" />
</definition>

So in short, if execute something like:
localhost/content/stories/1
localhost/content/stories/2
localhost/content/stories/3

all these should map to the definition in tiles.xml.
hope this explains my dilema.

Thanks a mill.

[vw729]

Hi all,
Am doing some work in Spring 3, together with tiles2. I am using the MVC, and am kind of stuck. I have a method in a controller, defined as :

@RequestMapping("/content/stories/view/{storyid}")
public ModelAndView editStoryPage(HttpServletRequest request, @PathVariable("storyid") int storyid) {
...
}


In my tiles xml definition, how do i dynamically map the {storyid} to a definition: the following is not working

<definition name="content/stories/**" extends="classic.definition">
<put-attribute name="title" value="View story" />
<put-attribute name="body" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/content/stories/viewstory.jsp" />
</definition>

So in short, if execute something like:
localhost/content/stories/1
localhost/content/stories/2
localhost/content/stories/3

all these should map to the definition in tiles.xml.
hope this explains my dilema.

Thanks a mill.

I don't follow your question neither whether it is a valid view name definition in Tiles. You can definite your view as content/stories/1, content/stories/2 and so on and return the different views based on the path variable. BTW what is the point to have various views while its components always are the same?

[skram]

@davidwaf, you should be returning a String instead of a ModelAndView and make sure you have the Tiles2 View Resolver.

Here's a tutorial I've setup using Tiles 2:

http://krams915.blogspot.com/2010/12...tegration.html

[davidwaf]

Thanks @skram. It turns out the problem was somewhere else..anyway, @wv729, basically i had wanted to dynamically generate tiles definitions:

localhost/content/stories/1
localhost/content/stories/2
...
localhost/content/stories/n,

but decided to do it differently, with just once definition and handing parameters from controller.

[rojanu]

davidwaf, I am trying to achieve the same what was your solution?

Thanks