Introduce convenient boolean configuration attribute for enabling auto-refresh of Tiles definitions [SPR-7225]

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Keith Donald opened SPR-7225 and commented

As of Tiles 2.1, Tiles has an boolean attribute that, if set to true, will turn on "auto refresh checking" for TIles definitions. This allows changes to Tiles definitions to be picked up in development without a server restart.

The current way of turning on a auto-refresh check is low-level. With Tiles 2.1, you set a custom tilesProperties on your TilesConfigurer with the "org.apache.tiles.definition.dao.LocaleUrlDefinitionDAO.CHECK_REFRESH" property set to true. (Reference: http://tiles.apache.org/2.1/framework/config-reference.html). I believe the mechanism in Tiles 2.2 for enabling this check is different.

As a user, I'd like a simple boolean property on TilesConfigurer to enable auto-refresh checks that works with Tiles 2.1 and > e.g.:

<beans:bean id="tilesConfigurer" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesConfigurer">
	<beans:property name="definitions">
		<beans:value>
			/WEB-INF/layouts/tiles.xml,
			/WEB-INF/views/*/tiles.xml
		</beans:value>
	</beans:property>
	<beans:property name="autoRefresh" value="true" />
</beans:bean>

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Affects: 3.0.2

Referenced from: commits 0390c2b

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Keith Donald commented

Here is a complete example of how to enable this check today with Tiles 2.1:

<!-- Initializes the Apache Tiles CompositeView system -->
<beans:bean id="tilesConfigurer" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesConfigurer">
	<beans:property name="definitions">
		<beans:value>
			/WEB-INF/layouts/tiles.xml,
			/WEB-INF/views/*/tiles.xml
		</beans:value>
	</beans:property>
	<beans:property name="tilesProperties">
		<beans:props>
			<beans:prop key="org.apache.tiles.definition.dao.LocaleUrlDefinitionDAO.CHECK_REFRESH">true</beans:prop>
		</beans:props>
	</beans:property>
</beans:bean>

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Juergen Hoeller commented

I've added a convenient "checkRefresh" bean property to TilesConfigurer. Works for me against Tiles 2.1 as well as 2.2 in a quick test. Would be great if you could give it a full integration test, ideally against both Tiles versions as well...

Juergen

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Ryan Walsh commented

I know years have passed, but I can't get this working. I've asked for help here (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18859970/automatically-reload-apache-tiles-2-2-xml-definition-files) but haven't gotten responses. Any ideas? Thanks guys!