I've been thinking about renaming the Partial object to something more generic.
I settled on Partial
initially for handling Ajax requests only. However there are use cases where a
Page Action could
handle non-Ajax requests, for example binary content (PNG, PDF, Excel) etc.
Any suggestions?
Fragment, (Snippet, Slice, Brick, Pagelet, Partlet, Slicelet) ?
The "binary" content returned, it's indeed "complete", not "partial",
but maybe the problem (and user confusion) is not with the naming, but
the fact that "Partial" renders non-Ajax binary content too? For those
binary resources, a much better name could be e.g. "Resource", so
E.g. Something like
public class Partial extends/implements Resource {
...
}
thus for "complete" binary responses to return a Resource, not a Partial?
Could this be an approach?
Adrian.
P.S. IMHO the naming "Behavior" is more confusing than "Callback", since
the "Callback" concept is quite known to most programmers.
