Re: RE: CrumbsTag idea

Aron,

This looks like good stuff.  The best way to get this added to the 
project is to:

1.  Download the source from CVS and add your tag in.
2.  Provide an example in the sample application.
3.  Write documentation in the xdocs directory.
4.  Create a patch and submit it to the bug tracker.

I can help with editing #3.

If you don't know how to create a patch, I can provide details on that 
- or you can just zip up the modifed project and send it to me via 
dropload.com.  If you do this, the important part is making your 
changes in a CVS version of the project so I can see what's changed.

Thanks,

Matt


On Feb 8, 2005, at 2:22 PM, Scott Sayles wrote:

> Hey Aron,
>
> Sounds interesting.  Unfortunately, at this point, I have little to do
> with StrutsMenu.  I just don't' have the time.  Matt has been the one
> heading things up recently.  I'll copy you to the user list as well.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Aron Gombas [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 3:51 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: CrumbsTag idea
>>
>>
>>  Hi Scott!
>>
>>  First, sorry for my poor English.
>>  We're using the struts-menu package in a current project,
>> and I had the
>> idea that I'd use it also for generating a "crumbs control", because
>> both the title keys and the URL's are available in
>> menu-config.xml, and
>> I don't really need anything else for the crumbs.
>>
>>  First, I thought I'd use the VelocityMenuDisplayer with some tricky
>> macros to render my menu to a format like "link1 > link2 >
>> link3", but
>> then I had to realize that I can't pass in an arbitrary list
>> of links to
>> the existing DisplayMenuTag, I can pass only a menu.
>>  So I had the choice to:
>>  a - create a dummy menu to each page (each configuration of
>> links) and
>> render it with Velocity
>> b - implement a separate tag which would receive the list of links as
>> attrib and use the MenuRepository object from the session-scope
>>
>>  I decided to do b, to have the following syntax (as you see
>> I needed to
>> support EL):
>>
>>  ...
>>  <wasp:crumbs links="menu.home, menu.domains,
>> buildingStructureTypeList. title, ${titleKey}"/>
>>  ...
>>
>>  The tag class evaluates and breaks up the "links" attib, and
>> builds the
>> HTML from the localized resource strings plus the URL's generated by
>> struts-menu.
>>  Not a big deal, but works perfectly and hyper-lightweight,
>> and you can
>> actually improve it to a real general tag:
>> - now the formatstrings are just hard-wired to the .java, but you can
>> easily externalize them to some .properties file (as I plan
>> to do that
>> later)
>> - also, getting the resources is Struts-dependent, so you
>> might want to
>> make changes in order to make it framework-independent
>> - adding extra attribs like e.g. "class" to make it look more
>> standard
>> is also a good idea
>>
>>  It's really just half-made, not more than an idea.
>>  I thought you might be interested in this. Plz ignore my
>> todo-tags in
>> Hungarian. ;)
>>  Thanks for reading.
>>
>>  Aron Gombas
>>  3NF Corporation
>>  www.3nf.com
>>
>>  PS. I'm not subscribed to the devel-list, so plz write me
>> directly if
>> you needed to communicate with me.
>>
>>
>
>
>
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