using getParameter in sitemesh3

[Mark Tombs]

Hi,

I have a site that works ok with sitemesh2, but I want some of the new functionality in sitemesh3 so I am trying it out.  I am doing the following:

On each decorated page I have a <meta name='menu' content='something'/> tag in the header. In the decorator I have navigation, and I am fetching the menu from the meta tag and highlighting the current menu and showing the appropriate submenu etc. I'm doing this with:

<c:set var="menu">

 <decorator:getProperty ="meta.menu" default="overview" />

</c:set>

and then using jsp tags to show and hide the relevant parts of the menu. Not very attractive but it works.

The question is, how do I do this in sitemesh3?  I've tried just replacing the decorator:getProperty tag with sitemesh:write property="meta.menu" /> but it doesn't work, I know I must be missing something...

thanks

Mark

[Joe Neuhaus]

Here is what works for me, which I believe will let you accomplish your goal.

In the decorator, which also has JSTL included:

pageContext.setAttribute("currentPage", "<sitemesh:write property='meta.currentPage'/>");

Which let's me access the value using ${currentPage} with the JSP.  Now, within the page that's being decorated you set it up like so:

<meta name="currentPage" content="<%=currPage%>"/><%-- Pass currentPage as a property to sitemesh (property name is currentPage) --%>

[Mark Tombs]

Thanks for the reply. For the time being I went back to sitemesh 2. I really don't want to have to change all my pages :(