Cannot put <tiles:definition> inside <tiles:putAttribute> [SPR-14311]

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Antonio Petrelli opened SPR-14311 and commented

When using Tiles 3 in JSP pages, if I have a mutable container I can do:
<tiles:putAttribute name="myname">
<tiles:definition template="...">
</tiles:definition>
</tiles:putAttribute>

This does not work with SpringConfigurer.

It seems that the problem relies in:
TilesConfigurer.SpringTilesContainerFactory.createContainer
The problem is that the DefinitionRenderer takes the non-decorated container.

Solution that I suggest:
override method createDecoratedContainer instead of createContainer.

Workaround: use your own TilesInitializer.

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Affects: 4.2.6

Backported to: 4.2.7

[spring-projects-issues]

Antonio Petrelli commented

I disagree being an improvement, sorry. Tiles alone works fine when used on its own, the use that the Spring initializer does is not correct.
So it is a bug IMHO.

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Juergen Hoeller commented

This will be available in the upcoming 4.3.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT: If you have the chance, please give it a try! It's also scheduled for a backport to 4.2.7 now.

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Antonio Petrelli commented

Thank you Jurgen! It works!
That was fast, thanks a lot!
I will wait for the upcoming 4.2.7 release then, in the meantime I'm using the workaround.

Best regards
Antonio