RE: Im trying to add a new menu property for use with Velocity.

Please ignore the previous request.

Type was a poor choice for a new attribute name.
I have changed this to Mtype and it works fine.
The velocity macro can now access the new attribute.



>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	David Ketchin  
> Sent:	30 April 2004 10:24
> To:	struts-menu-user-TtF/[email protected]
> Subject:	Im trying to add a new menu property for use with Velocity.
> 
> I use Struts-Menu 2.2 using the Velocity templates to customise and
> configure some dynamic functionality and appearance attributes for
> coolmenus4.
> 
> Our aim is for our customers to be able to fully configure their menu
> without having to edit JSP files.
> They will be able to edit Menu-config.xml
> I wan to add a new attribute to the xml called Type. 
> The Type attribute is a property to allow the velocity macro to perform
> specific processing for the menu element. 
> 
> Ive looked over the code and thought all I needed to do was to add setters
> and getters for type to MenuBase.java
> Presumably Im missing something obvious somewhere.
> The digester doesnt use a DTD to consume the stuts-menu file so I thought
> that using reflection it would set the new property values?
> Does anyone have a helpful hint ?
> 
> relevant code is below.
> 
> public abstract class MenuBase {
> .....//other stuff
> .....//other stuff
> .....//other stuff
> 
>  protected String type;
>  .....//other stuff  
> 
>  public String getType() {
> 		 return type;
> 	 }
> 
> .....//other stuff
> 
>  public void setType(String typ) {
> 		this.type = typ;
> 	}
> 
> }
> 
> My menu-config.xml 
> 
> <Menus>
> 
> 	<Menu  name="Contactusermenu"  title="HOMEMENU"  description="test"
> >
> 		<Item  name="HomeMenu"  title="HOMEMENU"  description="test"
> forward="Main.Welcome" />
> 		<Item  name="ContactIncidentMenu"  title="INCIDENTMENU"
> type="LogIncAllowed">
> 			<Item   name="PrinterFault"
> title="LOGPRINTERFAULT" forward="Incident.LogPrinterFault" />
> 			<Item   name="SoftwareFault"
> title="LOGSOFTWAREFAULT" forward="Incident.LogSoftwareFault" />
> 			<Item   name="GeneralFault"
> title="LOGGENERALFAULT" forward="Incident.LogGeneralFault" />
> 			<Item   name="LogIncident"   title="LOGINCIDENT"
> forward="Incident.LogIncident" />
>    		</Item>
>    		<Item  name="ContactChangeMenu"  title="REQUESTMENU"
> type="LogRFCAllowed">
> 			<Item   name="MoveFault"   title="LOGMOVEFAULT"
> forward="Incident.LogMoveFault" />
> 			<Item   name="NewtstartFault"
> title="LOGNEWSTARTFAULT" forward="Incident.LogNewstartFault" />
> 			<Item   name="LogChange"   title="LOGCHANGE"
> forward="Change.LogChange" />
>     	</Item>
>     	<Item  name="ViewMenu"  title="VIEWMENU"  description="test">
> 			<Item   name="EventMonitor"   title="EVENTMONITOR"
> forward="Main.EventSearch" />
> 			<Item   name="KnowledgeBase"   title="KNOWLEDGEBASE"
> forward="Main.KnowledgeBase" />
> 			<Item   name="AMSearch"   title="ASSETSEARCH"
> forward="Asset.AssetSearch" image="../images/select-all.png"/>	
>     	</Item>
>     	<Item  name="HelpMenu"  title="HELPMENU">
> 			<Item   name="AboutPage"   title="ABOUTPAGE"
> forward="Help.About" />
> 			<Item   name="HelpPage"   title="HELPPAGE"
> forward="Help.Main"  target="_blank"/>
>     	</Item>
>     	<Item  name="LogoutMenu"  title="LOGOUTMENU"   forward="Main.Logout"
> description="test"/>
>  	</Menu>
> </Menus>
> 
> However I get the following errors in the initialisation of the
> struts-menu plugin.
> 16:57:42,822 ERROR [Engine] StandardContext[/assystTen]: Servlet
> /assystTen threw load() exception
> javax.servlet.ServletException: Failure initializing struts-menu: Error
> parsing resource file: /WEB-INF/menu-config.xml nested exception is: Error
> at (30, 80: LogIncAllowed
> 	at net.sf.navigator.menu.MenuPlugIn.init(MenuPlugIn.java:67)
> 	at
> org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.initModulePlugIns(ActionServlet.jav
> a:1158)
> 	at
> org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.init(ActionServlet.java:473)
> 	at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:256)
> 	at
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:
> 935)
> 	at
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:823)
> 	at
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.jav
> a:3421)
> 	at
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3609)
> 	at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java
> :821)
> 	at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:807)
> 	at
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:579)
> 	at
> org.jboss.web.tomcat.tc4.EmbeddedTomcatService.createWebContext(EmbeddedTo
> mcatService.java:530)
> 	at
> org.jboss.web.tomcat.tc4.EmbeddedTomcatService.performDeploy(EmbeddedTomca
> tService.java:309)
> 	at
> org.jboss.web.AbstractWebContainer.start(AbstractWebContainer.java:428)
> 	at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.start(MainDeployer.java:832)
> 	at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:642)
> 	at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:605)
> 	at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor22.invoke(Unknown Source)
> 	at
> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorIm
> pl.java:25)
> 	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
> 	at
> org.jboss.mx.capability.ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedMBeanDisp
> atcher.java:284)
> 	at
> org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:546)
> 	at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:177)
> 	at $Proxy6.deploy(Unknown Source)
> 	at
> org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.deploy(URLDeploymentScan
> ner.java:302)
> 	at
> org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.scan(URLDeploymentScanne
> r.java:476)
> 	at
> org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.doSca
> n(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:201)
> 	at
> org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner.startService(Abstra
> ctDeploymentScanner.java:274)
> 	at
> org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.start(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:192)
> 	at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor4.invoke(Unknown Source)
> 	at
> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorIm
> pl.java:25)
> 	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
> 	at
> org.jboss.mx.capability.ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedMBeanDisp
> atcher.java:284)
> 	at
> org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:546)
> 	at
> org.jboss.system.ServiceController$ServiceProxy.invoke(ServiceController.j
> ava:976)
> 	at $Proxy0.start(Unknown Source)
> 	at
> org.jboss.system.ServiceController.start(ServiceController.java:394)
> 	at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor5.invoke(Unknown Source)
> 	at
> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorIm
> pl.java:25)
> 	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
> 	at
> org.jboss.mx.capability.ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedMBeanDisp
> atcher.java:284)
> 	at
> org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:546)
> 	at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:177)
> 	at $Proxy4.start(Unknown Source)
> 	at org.jboss.deployment.SARDeployer.start(SARDeployer.java:226)
> 	at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.start(MainDeployer.java:832)
> 	at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:642)
> 	at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:605)
> 	at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:589)
> 	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
> 	at
> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:
> 39)
> 	at
> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorIm
> pl.java:25)
> 	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
> 	at
> org.jboss.mx.capability.ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedMBeanDisp
> atcher.java:284)
> 	at
> org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:546)
> 	at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:177)
> 	at $Proxy5.deploy(Unknown Source)
> 	at org.jboss.system.server.ServerImpl.doStart(ServerImpl.java:384)
> 	at org.jboss.system.server.ServerImpl.start(ServerImpl.java:291)
> 	at org.jboss.Main.boot(Main.java:150)
> 	at org.jboss.Main$1.run(Main.java:395)
> 	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)
> 
> 
> 


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