UrlBasedViewResolver should implement setExposedContextBeanNames (not InternalResourceViewResolver) [SPR-8064]

[spring-projects-issues]

Scott Murphy opened SPR-8064 and commented

InternalResourceViewResolver has the ability to inject beans into a view. This is very useful if you have some beans that have static content you want to render in all of your views.

#9244 implemented setExposedContextBeanNames(String[] exposedContextBeanNames) on InternalResourceViewResolver.

This was good, but limits to only using an InternalResourceViewResolver.

If you are using a org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver with Tiles
you have to come up with your own solution like here
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2848415/accessing-spring-beans-from-a-tiles-view-jsp.

Since InternalResourceViewResolver extends UrlBasedViewResolver, why not just have UrlBasedViewResolver implement setExposedContextBeanNames(String[] exposedContextBeanNames) AND setExposeContextBeansAsAttributes(boolean exposeContextBeansAsAttributes) ?

If possible, maybe even move the methods all the way to org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractCachingViewResolver ?

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Affects: 3.0.5, 3.0.6, 3.1 M1

Attachments:

• ContextExposingViewResolver.java (2.94 kB)

Issue Links:

• [InternalResourceView] Allow exposeContextBeansAsAttributes to be applied to specific beans [SPR-4567] #9244 [InternalResourceView] Allow exposeContextBeansAsAttributes to be applied to specific beans

Referenced from: commits a05b748

5 votes, 4 watchers

[spring-projects-issues]

Xavier Dury commented

In the meantime, I use the following ContextExposingViewResolver which can decorate any ViewResolver to expose beans as request attributes.

[spring-projects-issues]

David Haraburda commented

I am submitting a pull request that moves this functionality up to UrlBasedViewResolver.

#616

Like the original reporter and commenter, we have been using the ContextExposingViewResolver as a workaround -- it would be very nice to see the ability to expose context beans available if you are using Tiles.