FW: Missing attribute

I've been debugging the tiles code and have made some progress.

I have four tiles that make up a single html page. The tile at the top (header) has three attributes and the tile in the middle (body, the one that is using an attribute for the first time) is in the middle and has one.

When I run through the InsertAttributeTag for the header I can see all of the attributes listed below, e.g., logoutErrorKey, titleKey, body, etc. in the attributes for evaluatingContext. When I run through the same code for the JSP in the middle, attributes is null. Any ideas why this may be happening?

I've been using tiles for about two years, but only on an app I inherited from someone else, so I'm still kinda a newbie.

I'm trying to extend a definition in my tiles so I can re-use an existing JSP and just add one error message. Here's the appropriate tiles entries:

  <definition name=".logout" extends=".baseDef">

      <put-attribute name="logoutErrorKey"      value="" />

      <put-attribute name="titleKey"            value="logout.title" />

      <put-attribute name="welcomeKey"          value="logout.welcome"/>

      <put-attribute name="menu"                value="/WEB-INF/view/logout_Menu.jsp" />

      <put-attribute name="body"                value="/WEB-INF/view/logout.jsp"/>

  </definition>

  <definition name=".logoutTimeout" extends=".logout">

      <put-attribute name="logoutErrorKey"      value="logout.timeout" />

  </definition>

Then I added this to my JSP:

            <tiles:insertAttribute name="logoutErrorKey"/>

I changed my app to forward to .logoutTimeout and I get the following error:

144623 ERROR org.apache.tiles.jsp.taglib.RoleSecurityTagSupport | Error executin

g tag: Attribute 'logoutErrorKey' not found.

org.apache.tiles.TilesException: Attribute 'logoutErrorKey' not found.

        at org.apache.tiles.jsp.taglib.InsertAttributeTag.render(InsertAttribute

Tag.java:112)

        at org.apache.tiles.jsp.taglib.RenderTagSupport.execute(RenderTagSupport

.java:171)

        at org.apache.tiles.jsp.taglib.RoleSecurityTagSupport.doEndTag(RoleSecur

ityTagSupport.java:75)

        at org.apache.tiles.jsp.taglib.ContainerTagSupport.doEndTag(ContainerTag

Support.java:80)

And I have no idea where to go next. Help, please?

Thom Hehl
Sr. eJuror Architect
ACS: Government Solutions

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