Re: repeater calls row-path method n+1 times

[Jorg Heymans]

I took the form2bean.flow example that is under CForms Block Samples 
(link is called "Bean Binding") and enhanced Form2Bean.java with a bit 
of get/set logging. I changed the calling flowscript method (form2bean 
in binding_example.js) to add 4 Contacts instead of 1.

Findings:
- getContacts() is called 5 times upon loading
- when removing 3 elements and saving the form, getContacts() is called 
7 times. setContacts() is called once for each removed element.
- at the end getContacts() is called another 3 times.

This is important to know when hooking up CForms to an O/R mapping. I am 
curious to know how other people have gotten around this when dealing 
with large repeaters.

Here is the output in case anyone is interested.
Upon loading the form initially
---------------------------------
addContact() 1
addContact() 2
addContact() 3
addContact() 4
getContacts() returning collection of size 4
elements are :
    id=1 name=Hermann1
    id=2 name=Hermann2
    id=3 name=Hermann3
    id=4 name=Hermann4
end getContacts()
getContacts() returning collection of size 4
elements are :
    id=1 name=Hermann1
    id=2 name=Hermann2
    id=3 name=Hermann3
    id=4 name=Hermann4
end getContacts()
getContacts() returning collection of size 4
elements are :
    id=1 name=Hermann1
    id=2 name=Hermann2
    id=3 name=Hermann3
    id=4 name=Hermann4
end getContacts()
getContacts() returning collection of size 4
elements are :
    id=1 name=Hermann1
    id=2 name=Hermann2
    id=3 name=Hermann3
    id=4 name=Hermann4
end getContacts()
getContacts() returning collection of size 4
elements are :
    id=1 name=Hermann1
    id=2 name=Hermann2
    id=3 name=Hermann3
    id=4 name=Hermann4
end getContacts()

removed contact 4,3,2 using the repeater remove button, pressed submit
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getContacts() returning collection of size 4
elements are :
    id=1 name=Hermann1
    id=2 name=Hermann2
    id=3 name=Hermann3
    id=4 name=Hermann4
end getContacts()
getContacts() returning collection of size 4
elements are :
    id=1 name=Hermann1
    id=2 name=Hermann2
    id=3 name=Hermann3
    id=4 name=Hermann4
end getContacts()
getContacts() returning collection of size 4
elements are :
    id=1 name=Hermann1
    id=2 name=Hermann2
    id=3 name=Hermann3
    id=4 name=Hermann4
end getContacts()
getContacts() returning collection of size 4
elements are :
    id=1 name=Hermann1
    id=2 name=Hermann2
    id=3 name=Hermann3
    id=4 name=Hermann4
end getContacts()
getContacts() returning collection of size 4
elements are :
    id=1 name=Hermann1
    id=2 name=Hermann2
    id=3 name=Hermann3
    id=4 name=Hermann4
end getContacts()
getContacts() returning collection of size 4
elements are :
    id=1 name=Hermann1
    id=2 name=Hermann2
    id=3 name=Hermann3
    id=4 name=Hermann4
end getContacts()
getContacts() returning collection of size 4
elements are :
    id=1 name=Hermann1
    id=2 name=Hermann2
    id=3 name=Hermann3
    id=4 name=Hermann4
end getContacts()
setContacts() with collection of size 3
elements are :
    id=1 name=Hermann1
    id=2 name=Hermann2
    id=3 name=Hermann3
end setContacts()
setContacts() with collection of size 2
elements are :
    id=1 name=Hermann1
    id=2 name=Hermann2
end setContacts()
setContacts() with collection of size 1
elements are :
    id=1 name=Hermann1
end setContacts()
getContacts() returning collection of size 1
elements are :
    id=1 name=Hermann1
end getContacts()
getContacts() returning collection of size 1
elements are :
    id=1 name=Hermann1
end getContacts()
getContacts() returning collection of size 1
elements are :
    id=1 name=Hermann1
end getContacts()

Jorg Heymans wrote:
Hi,
Bringing this over from user@ , this is just too unlogical for me.
Say formbean has a Collection called "smallbeans" of "smallbean" objects
and i want to have a repeater for this.
then the binding looks like
<fb:repeater id="myrepeater" parent-path="." row-path="smallbeans">
formbean.java has getSmallbeans() and setSmallbeans().
When loading this repeater, getSmallbeans() gets called n+1 times, where 
n is the number of elements in the collection. Now lets say that the 
repeater is populated from a fairly heave database query that returns 
around 100 entries - you get the picture :)

Is this a normal repeater feature? Shouldn't it be enough for the 
repeater to call the method only once as it returns the whole collection 
anyway?

Thoughts?
Jorg Heymans