Re: Own version of VelocityMenuDisplayer - problems with V2.4

Please enter an issue for this and we can fix it in the next release.

http://issues.appfuse.org/browse/SM

Matt

On 5/17/06, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> When using Struts-menu 2.3, I created my own version of the
> VelocityMenuDisplayer and removed the code to disallow menu components
> based on user role - instead, I handle the display of what is allowed for
> each user role directly in Velocity using:
>
>       #if ($displayer.isAllowed($menu))
>
> This has the advantage of not resetting the application scope menu each
> time a user with a different role logs in.
>
> I can do this again for Struts-menu 2.4 by creating my own
> VelocityMenuDisplayer  class once more and removing the call to:
>
>       updateAllowedComponents(menu);
>
> However, in Struts-menu 2.4 it seems that Velocity is only initialised if I
> use the supplied
>
>       net.sf.navigator.displayer.VelocityMenuDisplayer
>
> Code in:
>
>       net.sf.navigator.menu.MenuRepository
>
> specifically checks for this particular displayer:
>
>       if (displayerMapping.getType().equals(VelocityMenuDisplayer.class
> .getName())) {
>             if (servletContext == null) {
>                   log.error("ServletContext not set - can't initialize
> Velocity");
>             } else {
>                   VelocityMenuDisplayer.initialize(servletContext);
>             }
>       }
>
> It's reasonable that we only want to initialise this once, but tying it to
> a specific displayer type seems a bit restrictive.
>
>
> Steve
>
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