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The Dojo plugin will be deprecated on Struts 2.1 |
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The easiest way to get documentation for Struts 2.0 Dojo tag usage is to look at older Struts 2 documentation, like the Struts 2.0.11 Ajax tags wiki documentation. Please check that documentation and the Dojo tag examples in the showcase app of the appropriate Struts 2 version before asking questions on the struts-user mailing list! THE WIKI IS NOT VERSIONABLE (in a practical way). The documentation here is for the most current Struts 2, not necessarily the most current release. We try to add version-specific documentation notes but have undoubtedly missed some locations. |
Description
To use the AJAX tags from 2.1 on you must:
- Include the Dojo Plugin distributed with Struts 2 in your /WEB-INF/lib folder.
- Add <%@ taglib prefix="sx" uri="/struts-dojo-tags" %> to your page.
- Include the head tag on the page, which can be configured for performance or debugging purposes.
Handling AJAX Responses
The following attributes affect the handling of all ajax responses.
Attribute | Default Value | Description |
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parseContent | true | When true, Dojo will parse the response into an XHTML Document Object and traverse the nodes searching for Dojo Widget markup. The parse and traversal is performed prior to inserting the nodes into the DOM. This attribute must be enabled to nest Dojo widgets (dojo tags) within responses. There's significant processing involved to create and parse the document so switch this feature off when not required. Note also that the response must be valid XHTML for cross-browser support and widgets must have unique IDs. |
separateScripts | true | When true, Dojo will extract the <script> tags from the response, concatenate the extracted code into one block, create a new Function whose body is the extracted code and immediately invoke the function. The invocation is performed after the DOM has been updated with the XHTML. The function is executed within the scope of the widget (that is, the this variable points to the widget instance). |
executeScripts | false | When true, Dojo will extract code from the <script> tags from the response and execute it based on the separateScripts value. |
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It's possible that the updated DOM will not include <script> nodes even though the inline code has been executed. |
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Ensure the response is XHTML-compliant (including, for example, thead and tbody tags in tables). |
Topics
Most of the AJAX tags use Dojo topics for event notification and communication between them, to learn about topics visit Dojo's documentation
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