Re: Re: Newbee - Velocity and Struts-Menu

Rob Moore wrote:

> Thomas Bednarz wrote:
>
>> Can I use Struts-menu in a VELOCITY ONLY environment without ANY jsp 
>> tag library? Are there any pointers about how to configure it and a 
>> sample vm file?
>
>
> I'm currently doing this from within Spring. I'm using the Velocity 
> code from struts-menu and the menu repository object. It's been 
> useful, but far less so than if I was using from within a JSP. Mostly 
> I'm using it to avoid recreating the functionality provided by the 
> menu repository.
>
> So within my controller, I place the menu repository into the 
> equivalent of the Struts form bean (the command object) like so:
>
> MenuRepository menuRepository = (MenuRepository) 
> servletContext             
> .getAttribute(MenuRepository.MENU_REPOSITORY_KEY);
> command.setMenuRepository(menuRepository);
>
> Then within my Velocity template I use displayMenu macro taken from 
> struts-menu:
>
> <div id="menuDiv">
>     <ul id="menuList">
>     #foreach ( $page in ["general", "items", "pricing", "sites"] )
>         #displayMenu($command.menuRepository.getMenu($page) 0)
>     #end
>     </ul>
> </div>
>
> HTH,
>
> Rob

Hi Rob,

Thought that there must be a way of doing it! Many thanks for the 
pointers. I will look into that.

Tom

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