Return rendered Tiles view as String - including views

[pkrasko]

I am trying to create a custom JSON view.
I have created a class implementing View and I was planning on writing the output in the render method.

The JSON should something like this:

"errors": "true/false",
"content": "<p>Some html content<p>"

The 'content' needs to come from a Tiles view.
In the new view class I was creating (in the render method) I need to know how to return the rendered content of a TilesView as a String so I can append it to my JSON message.

Can someone please give me a few pointers?

       @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
	@Override
	public void render(Map model, HttpServletRequest request,
			HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception {
		
		// get the tiles view as a string
		TilesView view = new TilesView();
		view.setUrl(tilesView);
		//view.render(model, request, response);
	}

thanks

[pkrasko]

After reading another post I saw someone else was trying to do something similar. They ended up using a MockHttpServletRequest and MockHttpServletResponse within the controller to obtain the rendered view as a String, calling the method getContentAsString() on the mock response.

This doesn't seem too elegant, but I got it to work.

The main problem I don't like is it makes a new mock request to another controller.

I really just want the existing request to trigger multiple jsps / tiles.
Tiles does this when you return a tiles definition name, the template usually includes multiple jsp fragments. I'm looking for this behavior within the controller.

Is there a way to explicitly say render the view in "/web-inf/jsp/pageA.jsp" then include the page in "web-inf/jsp/pageB.jsp"?

Help please...