Yes, that would be template file name.
musachy
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Ignacio de Córdoba <icord...@skios.es> wrote:
>
> OK. Thanks for the advice. I tried to use Tiles2 because my user interface is
> used with Tiles2. If I get a Tile for the email, the email received has the
> same look&feel as the web pages. And I can re-use JSP/JSTL/OGNL parts.
>
> I'll give FreeMarker a try... just a question... in the code you sent... the
> "String template" argument is just the file name of the Freemarket content
> (mail.ftl) file?
>
> Thanks,
> Ignacio
>
>
> Musachy Barroso wrote:
>>
>> The thing is that neither JSP nor Tiles are designed for what you want
>> to do. BTW, FreeMarker is already in your application.
>>
>> musachy
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Ignacio de Córdoba <icord...@skios.es>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> hi again,
>>> thanks for your reply. I've never used FreeMaker or Velocity. I use
>>> Tiles2... can you figure out if your solution can be solved with Tiles2.
>>> I
>>> wouldn't like to get into those, I'm sure great, technologies only for
>>> this.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ignacio
>>>
>>>
>>> Musachy Barroso wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I don't know how to fix it, but i would never use JSP for this. I
>>>> would suggest you use FreeMarker or Velocity which will be very easy
>>>> to get working and won't break across different containers/versions.
>>>> For example, for FreeMarker (which will be in the classpath already),
>>>> I use this:
>>>>
>>>> public static void process(ServletContext context, String template,
>>>> Map<String, Object> values, Writer writer) throws IOException,
>>>> TemplateException {
>>>> Configuration cfg = new Configuration();
>>>> cfg.setDirectoryForTemplateLoading(new
>>>> File(context.getRealPath("/templates")));
>>>> cfg.setObjectWrapper(new DefaultObjectWrapper());
>>>>
>>>> BeansWrapper wrapper = BeansWrapper.getDefaultInstance();
>>>> TemplateHashModel staticModels = wrapper.getStaticModels();
>>>> Template temp = cfg.getTemplate(template);
>>>> temp.process(values, writer);
>>>> writer.flush();
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> //also JSP has not way to deal with empty spaces and such
>>>>
>>>> musachy
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Ignacio de Córdoba <icord...@skios.es>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi there,
>>>>> I had a working solution that was fine for struts1 and doesn't work
>>>>> with
>>>>> struts2.
>>>>> The scenario is evey time the application needs to send a mail from an
>>>>> action (for example, when a user signs up, the system sends him a
>>>>> welcome
>>>>> mail)
>>>>>
>>>>> My solution got the JSP the following way:
>>>>>
>>>>> public String getResourceAsString(String path) throws
>>>>> ServletException,
>>>>> IOException
>>>>> {
>>>>> HttpServletRequest request =
>>>>> org.apache.struts2.ServletActionContext.getRequest();
>>>>> HttpServletResponse response =
>>>>> ServletActionContext.getResponse();
>>>>> try
>>>>> {
>>>>> ByteArrayOutputStream out = new
>>>>> ByteArrayOutputStream();
>>>>> RequestDispatcher dispatcher =
>>>>> request.getRequestDispatcher(path);
>>>>> RedirectingServletResponse dummyResponse = new
>>>>> RedirectingServletResponse(response, out);
>>>>> dispatcher.include(request, dummyResponse);
>>>>> return out.toString();
>>>>> } catch (NullPointerException e)
>>>>> {
>>>>> return "<p>No such template: " + path + "</p>";
>>>>> }
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> (RedirectingServletResponse class just extends
>>>>> HttpServletResponseWrapper
>>>>> and captures output to a ByteArrayOutputStream)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The JSP needs a small scriptlet at its end:
>>>>> <% out.flush(); %>
>>>>>
>>>>> Without it, the mail is sent blank as the JSP is not rendered to
>>>>> HTML/text
>>>>> as the request has not ended (I use the current thread request because:
>>>>> 1) I
>>>>> don't know how to create a brand new request/response 2) This way I can
>>>>> use
>>>>> all request parameters, attributes... in the mail sent and so not use
>>>>> just
>>>>> plain HTML but real JSP.
>>>>>
>>>>> The problem now is that struts2 shows the following exception:
>>>>>
>>>>> java.io.IOException: Stream closed
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspWriterImpl.ensureOpen(JspWriterImpl.java:204)
>>>>>
>>>>> org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspWriterImpl.flushBuffer(JspWriterImpl.java:115)
>>>>>
>>>>> org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspWriterImpl.flush(JspWriterImpl.java:173)
>>>>>
>>>>> org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspRuntimeLibrary.include(JspRuntimeLibrary.java:956)
>>>>>
>>>>> org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.include(PageContextImpl.java:609)
>>>>>
>>>>> org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.ServletDispatcherResult.doExecute(ServletDispatcherResult.java:123)
>>>>>
>>>>> org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.StrutsResultSupport.execute(StrutsResultSupport.java:186)
>>>>>
>>>>> com.opensymphony.xwork2.DefaultActionInvocation.executeResult(DefaultActionInvocation.java:361)
>>>>>
>>>>> com.opensymphony.xwork2.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:265)
>>>>>
>>>>> com.servengine.struts2.InjectEJBInterceptor.intercept(InjectEJBInterceptor.java:89)
>>>>>
>>>>> com.opensymphony.xwork2.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:236)
>>>>>
>>>>> org.apache.struts2.impl.StrutsActionProxy.execute(StrutsActionProxy.java:52)
>>>>>
>>>>> org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.Dispatcher.serviceAction(Dispatcher.java:468)
>>>>>
>>>>> org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.FilterDispatcher.doFilter(FilterDispatcher.java:395)
>>>>>
>>>>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
>>>>>
>>>>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206
>>>>>
>>>>> Any ideas on this... or better... any directions on how can I
>>>>> instanciate
>>>>> a
>>>>> "fake" response not based on current struts2 Action ServletResponse
>>>>> object
>>>>> (and so flush() or close() will not affect it).
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Ignacio
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