Question

How could I encapsulate the authentication logic, the URL and the label of a Menu item when I make use of e.g. a Dojo MenuItem widget?

What I currently have is this:

<auth:isRole  role="admin">
  <div dojoType="widget.Menu.MenuItem">
    <a href="<html:rewrite page="... complicated url ..."/>">
      <bean:message key="label.goes.here"/>
    </a>
  </div>
</auth:isRole>

And what I would like to achieve would be something like:

<util:menuitem role="admin" link="...complicated url..." label="label.goes.here" />

Is this possible to implement with a custom tag?
Would there be other options to use Ajax or JS helpers?

Answer 1

There’s a project called Struts Menu that is a combination of a taglib, a config file, and Velocity templates to encapsulate menu display logic and security. I don’t think there’s an existing Velocity template for Dojo menus, but it shouldn’t be difficult to write one.