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Timo Rantalaiho updated WICKET-1312:
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Attachment: (was: Generic_EventBroadcaster.patch)
> Generic inter-component event mechanism
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> Key: WICKET-1312
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-1312
> Project: Wicket
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: wicket-extensions
> Affects Versions: 1.3.0-final
> Reporter: Timo Rantalaiho
> Fix For: 1.4-M1
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> Attachments: Generic_EventBroadcaster.patch
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> The attached patch provides a generic mechanism for transmitting
> inter-component events within a page. This has grown primarily from the need
> to repaint all relevant ajax components after an event, but can be used also
> in non-ajax environments such as after normal form submits.
> The basic idea is to fire an IVisitor on the page of the component sending an
> event, giving as an argument an event-specific listener interface that must
> be implemented by the components willing to receive the events. They can then
> do whatever they need such as add themselves to the AjaxRequestTarget that
> can be supplied in the event.
> Sometimes the basic Wicket mechanisms such as sharing a model are not enough;
> particularly repainting all relevant components in Ajax events gets tedious
> if the components are far away from each other in a complex DOM tree.
> The benefits of this approach are
> - loose coupling between the sending and receiving end
> - however, because of strong static typing it's easy enough to find with an
> IDE from where the events are broadcasted and where they are received
> - good testability (EventBroadcaster can be mocked on the sending end, and
> event handlers tested directly on the receiving end, possibly with mock
> events)
> - no need the keep references to Component instances or their paths (which
> could have been problematic on repeaters)
> (This is not a real observer or listener pattern implementation because the
> components cannot register and unregister themselves dynamically, but
> "registering" is handled statically on a class basis by implementing the
> relevant event receiver interface.)
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