By the way, I forgot an emoticon:
It is a thing of beauty. ;)
Matt Tyson wrote:
>
> Well, I went off and rewrote the AjaxTree to improve it and make it work
> in Tomahawk. It is a thing of beauty.
>
> The API is very simple, just implement the AjaxTreeDataProvider interface:
>
> public interface AjaxTreeDataProvider {
> public List getRootNodes();
> public List getChildNodes(String nodeString);
> }
>
> and the data is transfered via a simple VO called the AjaxTreeNode (a
> javabean with 4 properties).
>
> The nodes are rendered via as needed by Ajax calls. Multi-line node
> information display is supported. Facets are used to specify the node
> display.
>
> The next thing is to add an optional toolbar in which the user can specify
> what controls are available. This toolbar can be hooked into JS calls
> that allow re-rooting/backing-out in the tree (a la eclipse) and
> refreshing.
>
> The AjaxTree is ideal for large data sets or any situation where the
> entire tree may never be viewed.
>
> I understand not wanting to have tree1, tree2 and AjaxTree. When I built
> the first version, I considered using Tree2 as a basis, but found it to be
> much cleaner and simpler to build it fresh.
>
> I strongly feel its a great addition to MyFaces. Let me know what you all
> think.
>
>
> Matthias Wessendorf-4 wrote:
>>
>> On Feb 5, 2008 9:59 AM, Gerald Müllan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> > Just that you can't have this ajaxed-node-fetching which would be
>>> really
>>> > a nice feature I often whished to have.
>>> > Yes, you can put tree2 in a ppr group (which I already did), but you
>>> > have to fetch the whole tree in node toggling, no?
>>>
>>> Yes, that`s right. The whole tree has to be embedded inside ppr.
>>> Never tried ajax4jsf, but i think it must be the same approach.
>>
>> why bother with that?
>> Isn't ajax4jsf doing things like:
>> <ajaxEnabled/>; <ajaxRegion />
>>
>> I doubt, that adding tags for treating ajax as a special case is the
>> right way.
>>
>>>
>>> So, updating only the affected node would be indeed a very nice feature.
>>
>> +1 (instead of replacing the complete DOM for the entire tree, right?)
>>
>>>
>>> best regards,
>>>
>>> Gerald
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Matthias Wessendorf
>>
>> further stuff:
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>> mail: matzew-at-apache-dot-org
>>
>>
>
>
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