Re: 2 Questions: Roles and Query Strings

Brian - you might try the latest version of Struts Menu (2.3) and see 
if your issue still happens there.

Matt

On Feb 14, 2005, at 8:34 AM, Brian Rosenthal wrote:

> Can someone on this list please help?
> Thanks,
> -BR
>
> Note: forwarded message attached.
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> From: "Scott Sayles" <[email protected]>
> Date: February 11, 2005 2:35:54 PM MST
> To: <uublr-/[email protected]>
> Cc: "'novajug'" <[email protected]>
> Subject: RE: [novajug] Struts-Menu
>
>
> Hello Brian,
>
> I'm actually the author for the project.  However, I've since handed it
> over to Matt Raibel as I stopped having anything to do with it (because
> people stopped paying me to improve it and I've had no other use for it
> ;-)).
>
> As for your issue with switching the menu displayer to use CoolMenus,
> that particular displayer requires additional javascript included in
> your page.  i.e. it's not just a simple matter of just changing the
> displayer type in the tag (at least not at the time I was last in the
> code).
>
> In any case, I would suggest that you send your inquiry to
> struts-menu-user-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uti2KpX7p8Fi@public.gmane.org
>
> Thanks.
>
> Scott Sayles
> Software Developer
> FGM Inc.
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Bock [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 3:54 PM
>> To: novajug
>> Cc: Scott Sayles
>> Subject: Re: [novajug] Struts-Menu
>>
>>
>> Brian,
>>
>>   I'm forwarding your note to Scott Sayles, who if I am not
>> mistaken was the person at FGM who played a part in the
>> creation of Struts-Menu.
>>
>> -db
>>
>> On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 12:51, Brian wrote:
>>> I have two questions regarding Struts-Menu, a SourceForge project
>>> that's now been decoupled from Struts itself.  The API docs seem to
>>> indicate that FGM played a part in its creation, so I thought it
>>> would be appropriate to ask them here.  I tried to research these
>>> issues on the project's web site, but had no luck.  Even tried
>>> to "Submit an issue" but got a 404.
>>>
>>> 1)	Following the code in the examples is pretty
>>> straightforward.  I'm trying to hide menu items based on roles,
>>> which is implemented in a very straightforward way.  I have a
>>> ListItemMenu Displayer which behaves as expected.  When I add
>>> permissions="rolesAdapter" to my <menu:useMenuDisplayer> tag and
>>> update menu-config.xml with a roles="bigboss," only authenticated
>>> users of type bigboss can see the menu item.  Here's the problem.
>>> When I switch my useMenuDisplayer to the coolmenu (which is pretty
>>> cool, btw) the behavior breaks.  Non-bigbosses see no menu at all.
>>> I haven't changed anything else and yes, I have added a
>>> CoolMenuDisplayer Displayer to menu-config.xml with the proper name.
>>>
>>> 2)	I have several MenuItems that are unusable.  The value for
>>> the page attribute in these MenuItems contain query strings with
>>> name/value pairs.
>>>      page="/myfile.html?fname=brian"
>>> Apparently, an equals sign is not accepted.  I tried
>> overriding this
>>> using
>>>      page="!<[PCDATA[=/myfile.html?fname=brian]]>"
>>> but no luck.  I did find a similar problem online, but no fix.
>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/struts-menu-
>>> [email protected]/msg00072.html
>>>
>>> Can anyone on this list offer some suggestions, or even point me in
>>> the right direction?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -BR
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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