Can we use mvc:view-controller tag for displaying a tiles view.
Eg: If we have a tiles definition of the form definition,
name="userLogon.page"
template="webapp/app/layout/baseLayoutExterior.jsp"
extends="basePageDefinition"
Can we write mvc:view-controller path="/logon" view-name="userLogon.page" in our servlet.xml file.
I am getting an HTTP 404 RESOURCE NOT FOUND ERROR on this whereas a normal hello.jsp page is displayed without problems.
Please help i am stuck.
Yes
You need to add a TilesConfigurer and a TilesView
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver"
id="tilesViewResolver">
<property name="viewClass"
value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesView" />
</bean>
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesConfigurer"
id="tilesConfigurer">
<property name="definitions">
<list>
<value>/WEB-INF/layouts/layouts.xml</value>
<!-- Scan views directory for Tiles configurations -->
<value>/WEB-INF/views/**/views.xml</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
Example Layout.xml located in webapp/WEB-INF/layouts
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE tiles-definitions PUBLIC
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Tiles Configuration 2.1//EN"
"http://tiles.apache.org/dtds/tiles-config_2_1.dtd">
<tiles-definitions>
<definition name="default" template="/WEB-INF/layouts/default.jspx">
<put-attribute name="header" value="/WEB-INF/views/header.jspx" />
<put-attribute name="menu" value="/WEB-INF/views/menu.jspx" />
<put-attribute name="footer" value="/WEB-INF/views/footer.jspx" />
</definition>
</tiles-definitions>
one of the view.xml's located in webapp/WEB-INF/views/bookmarks
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE tiles-definitions PUBLIC "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Tiles Configuration 2.1//EN" "http://tiles.apache.org/dtds/tiles-config_2_1.dtd">
<tiles-definitions>
<definition extends="default" name="bookmarks/show">
<put-attribute name="body" value="/WEB-INF/views/bookmarks/show.jspx" />
</definition>
<definition extends="default" name="bookmarks/list">...</definition>
<definition extends="default" name="bookmarks/create">...</definition>
<definition extends="default" name="bookmarks/update">...</definition>
</tiles-definitions>
One controller method:
@RequestMapping("/bookmarks")
@Controller
public class BookmarkController {
...
/** Return the show page. */
@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET, value = "/{id}")
public ModelAndView show(@PathVariable("id") long bookmarkId) {
return new ModelAndView("bookmarks/show", "bookmark", bookmarkDao.getBzId(bookmarkId));
}
}
