I think we're definitely seeing some different concerns within Tapestry conflicting with each other.
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Igor Drobiazko <[email protected]> wrote: > Tapestry is known for taking over the plumbing work and this solution > somehow goes against this philosophy. In most cases a user don't have to > know how the context value is converted from string to a server-side object > and vice versa. Providing @MetchExtraPath annotationthe user adds some kind > of redundancy. > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Howard Lewis Ship <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Just had a thought (hopefully original) about dealing with the issue >> of Index pages and bad paths. >> >> This comes up with Tapestry often enough; an errant entry in a CSS >> file, or a manually mangled URL, and an Index page is activated with >> an invalid page activation context, resulting in an exception. >> >> But it just occurred to me that in most cases, we will know what the >> page activation context will look like (for example, a series of >> digits is most likely) ... something that can be expressed as a >> regular expression. >> >> So how about something like: >> >> @MatchExtraPath("\\d+") >> public class Index >> { >> } >> >> This would identify the page activation context (the extra path) as >> needed to match the pattern \d+ (a series of at least one digit). >> >> So, once the page is identified, the PageDispatcher (contributed to >> the MasterDispatcher chain of command) can examine the page to see if >> it has the @MatchExtraPath and, if so, continue searching if the extra >> path does not match. >> >> -- >> Howard M. Lewis Ship >> >> Creator of Apache Tapestry >> >> The source for Tapestry training, mentoring and support. Contact me to >> learn how I can get you up and productive in Tapestry fast! >> >> (971) 678-5210 >> http://howardlewisship.com >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> > > > -- > Best regards, > > Igor Drobiazko > http://tapestry5.de > -- Howard M. Lewis Ship Creator of Apache Tapestry The source for Tapestry training, mentoring and support. Contact me to learn how I can get you up and productive in Tapestry fast! (971) 678-5210 http://howardlewisship.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
