tiles-request-api/src/main/java/org/apache/tiles/request/render/DispatchRenderer.java

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package org.apache.tiles.request.render;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.tiles.request.Request;
import org.apache.tiles.request.DispatchRequest;
import org.apache.tiles.request.RequestWrapper;

/**
 * Renders an attribute that contains a reference to a template.
 *
 * @version $Rev$ $Date$
 */
public class DispatchRenderer implements Renderer {

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    @Override
    public void render(String path, Request request) throws IOException {
        if (path == null) {
            throw new CannotRenderException("Cannot dispatch a null path");
        }
        DispatchRequest dispatchRequest = getDispatchRequest(request);
        if (dispatchRequest == null) {
            throw new CannotRenderException("Cannot dispatch outside of a web environment");
        }

        dispatchRequest.dispatch(path);
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    public boolean isRenderable(String path, Request request) {
        return path != null && getDispatchRequest(request) != null && path.startsWith("/");
    }

    private DispatchRequest getDispatchRequest(Request request) {
        Request result = request;
        while (!(result instanceof DispatchRequest) && result instanceof RequestWrapper) {
            result = ((RequestWrapper) result).getWrappedRequest();
        }
        if (!(result instanceof DispatchRequest)) {
            result = null;
        }
        return (DispatchRequest) result;
    }
}