sitemesh and spring MVC decorator pattern problems

Question

I have sitemesh with spring working, this is the configuration: decorator.xml

Answer 1

Maybe it will be useful for someone, I have got the same problem, and after research in google and stading sitemesh sources, solve the problem, by extending ConfigDecoratorMapping. Here is it:

/**
 * Created by IntelliJ IDEA.
 * User: Inf-root
 * Date: 30.06.11
 * Time: 1:00
 *
 */

public class ConfigDecoratorMapperSpringMvcSupport extends ConfigDecoratorMapper {

    private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getLogger(ConfigDecoratorMapperSpringMvcSupport.class);

    private ConfigLoader configLoader = null;

     /** Create new ConfigLoader using '/WEB-INF/decorators.xml' file. */
    public void init(Config config, Properties properties, DecoratorMapper parent) throws InstantiationException {
        LOG.debug("init()...");
        super.init(config, properties, parent);
        try {
            String fileName = properties.getProperty("config", "/WEB-INF/decorators.xml");
            configLoader = new ConfigLoader(fileName, config);
        }
        catch (Exception e) {
            throw new InstantiationException(e.toString());
        }
    }

    /** Retrieve {@link com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.Decorator} based on 'pattern' tag. */
    public Decorator getDecorator(HttpServletRequest request, Page page) {
        LOG.debug("getDecorator()...");
        String thisPath = request.getServletPath();
        LOG.debug("\tThisPath: " + thisPath);
        String requestURI = request.getRequestURI();
        LOG.debug("\t\tGet request URI: " + requestURI);
        //TODO check indexes
        thisPath = "/springURITemplate" + requestURI.substring(request.getContextPath().length(), requestURI.length() - 1);
        LOG.debug("\t\t\tThisPath: " + thisPath);
        String name = null;
        try {
            name = configLoader.getMappedName(thisPath);
        }
        catch (ServletException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        LOG.debug("\tResolved decorator name: " + name);
        Decorator result = getNamedDecorator(request, name);
        LOG.debug("Decorator is null ? " + (result == null));
        return result == null ? super.getDecorator(request, page) : result;
    }
}

and my decorators.xml contains something like this

    
        /springURITemplate/a/administration*
    

Tested on tomcat 7 with Spring 3.0.5