Calling Controller from Tiles Template using Spring 3

Question

I just set up Apache Tiles 2 in my Spring MVC 3 application.

I created my template :

 <definition name="baseLayout" template="/WEB-INF/jsp/baseLayout.jsp">
      <put-attribute name="title"  value="Template"/>
      <put-attribute name="header" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/header.jsp"/>
      <put-attribute name="menu"   value="/WEB-INF/jsp/menu.jsp"/>
      <put-attribute name="body"   value="/WEB-INF/jsp/body.jsp"/>
      <put-attribute name="footer"   value="/WEB-INF/jsp/footer.jsp"/>
  </definition>

and a Welcome page :

  <definition name="welcome" extends="baseLayout">
      <put-attribute name="title"  value="Welcome"/>
      <put-attribute name="body"   value="/WEB-INF/jsp/home.jsp"/>      
  </definition>

And the properties for tile :

welcome.(class)=org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesView
welcome.url=welcome

And my controller :

@RequestMapping(value="/welcome", method=RequestMethod.GET)
public ModelAndView home() {
    logger.info("Welcome home yesssssss!");
    ModelAndView mav = new ModelAndView();
    logger.info("Loading Companies");
    mav.addObject("companys", companyService.loadCompanys());
    mav.setViewName("welcome");
    return mav;
}

It works fine.

But how do i call another controller from within the template file like say menu.jsp that will call a controller like this one :

@RequestMapping(value="/menu", method=RequestMethod.GET)
public ModelAndView menu() {
    logger.info("get MEnu");
    ModelAndView mav = new ModelAndView();
    logger.info("Loading menu");
    mav.addObject("menu", menu.get());
    mav.setViewName("menu");
    return mav;
}

Any idea?

thanks

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 16 '10 at 12:18

In order to call the 'menu' controller, you need to specify the 'menu' in your properties file together with a corresponding url, which has to be mapped to the controller (just like you did for the welcome).

May I suggest to use .htm for views or .do for forms etc.? Without, it's easy to get confused if you're trying to show a view, or you're trying to map a Request etc.

Calling Controller from Tiles Template using Spring 3

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