Hi, during working on ajaxifying some tobago components i came over some issues which i like to discuss here.
Starting with adding inputSuggestAjax functionality to the tc:in component everything goes well with the current sandbox approach running the AjaxPhaseListener after InvokeApplication. My next step was ajaxifying the server side tab switching of tabgroup. For this in need to add the tabs content values into the request to preserve them in the view. Now the problem of validation and updateModel occurs: If a validation error occurs, then the rest of lifcircle (including AjaxPhaseListener) is skipped and the whole page is rendered as response where only the content of one tab was expected on client side. I decided to move the Listener to after ApplyRequestValues phase. And leave the responsibility for executing other phases (like updateModel and Validation) to the ajaxifyed component(e.g. to the programmer of this component). Some weeks ago here was the proposal to replace the current procedure in AjaxPhaseListener ( uiViewRoot.findComponent(<ajaxId>).renderAjax() ) by something like processAjax() invoked on uiViewRoot. In my opinion this makes sense because there could be more to do than just rendering. Another problem are component specific resources like javascript and style files (*.js and *.css). Currently they are added to the header only if they are needed after rendering the page content. In tomahawk by the ExtensionFilter, in tobago by the PageRenderer after the content was rendered into a buffer. This is not possible if they are rendered by a tabswitching ajax request, because the (html) header is not rendered then. There are two solutions: 1) render always all possible resources into the header (I don' like this) 2) load these resources via clientside scripting (This is what i prefer, but i'm not sure about the best way to do this) Any thougths about the best way to handle these problems? regards, Volker -- Don't answer to From: address! Mail to this account are droped if not recieved via mailinglist. To contact me direct create the mail address by concatenating my forename to my senders domain.
