> From: Dan Finkelstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> Thanks for your approach. I guess there a various ways to structure
> this. I was trying to avoid having two template pages and two
controllers
> for each report. That seemed like too much. Your solution is nice
> because
> you end up with a total of two controllers, and then two template
pages
> for
> each report.
Yup, lots of ways to skin cats :-)
> What I ended up doing was putting both the query template page and the
> report template page together in a single template page doing
something
> like this:
>
> <html>....
> #if ($form)
> html for form goes here
> #else
> html for report goes here
> #end
> ...</html>
>
> And then in the controller is something like this:
> boolean getForm() { return
> getRequest().getMethod().equals("GET"); }
>
> The controller also ends up serving "double-duty", handling the query
and
> the report. I like it because it tends to keep like functionality
> together.
Just looking at what you have here, why not put the html for the two
separate views in different files and then let the controller choose
between them? The maverick.xml could be something like this:
<command name="report">
<controller class="org.foo.Bar"/>
<view name="form" path="form.vm"/>
<view name="report" path="report.vm"/>
<view name="other" ...
</command>
I tend to shy away from big #if statements in my templates, but of
course everyone is entitled their own aesthetic judgment :-) I also
tend to prefer breaking functionality out into separate classes, sharing
common behavior in a superclass.
> By the by, I _really_ am enjoying this framework. It truly is
> well-designed and thought through -- it is a pleasure to use. I've
worked
> with and seen many frameworks and this is the first one I've seen that
> really makes sense. (...even without documentation!!!)
Thanks!!! We love hearing stuff like this :-)
Jeff Schnitzer
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