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Erik Godding Boye commented on WICKET-3554:
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I think this issue should be reopened. Let me try to explain why:
I am trying to pass a reference to the referring page, to a bookmarkable page,
using a BookmarkablePageLink. The reference is later used to direct the user
back to the referring page (if it still exists).
Because of the non-public constructor in PageReference, there is no way to
reconstruct the object based on the PageParameters passed to the bookmarkable
page.
Of course I have to deal with the possibility that the referring page no longer
exist, but I guess in that case, PageReference#getPage will return null.
As a workaround, I store the pageId as a reference to the referring page in the
bookmarkable page, and copied the code in PageReference#getPage. It works, but
it is definitely not an ideal solution.
I you are worried about creating references to non-existing pages, you could
add some kind of validating factory method - that verifies the page existence
(using the same code as in PageReference#getPage).
> Constructor of org.apache.wicket.PageReference should be public
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> Key: WICKET-3554
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-3554
> Project: Wicket
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: wicket
> Affects Versions: 1.4.15
> Reporter: Thomas Götz
> Priority: Minor
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> The construcor of PageReference is not accessible (no qualifier, proteced).
> Is this for a reason? As far as I can see, a public qualifier would be nice
> as I rather often created an own class with a similar implementation (because
> I could not create an instance of PageReference).
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