Re: Roles and Query Strings

On Feb 15, 2005, at 10:38 AM, Brian Rosenthal wrote:

> Hello.  I'm brand new to the list.  Scott Scott Sayles suggested I  
> join and ask this question here:
>
> 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 s  ee 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.

It sounds like a bug in CoolMenus - are you using CoolMenus3 or  
CoolMenus4?

>
> 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-user-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org/ 
> msg00072.html

What's the error you're getting?  I don't think = is a unique character  
in XML, but I could be wrong.

Matt

>
> Can anyone on this list offer some suggestions, or even point me in
> the right direction?
>
> Thanks,
> -BR
>
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