On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 10:32:53AM +0100, Wouter Heijke wrote: > To me using "news,posrel,images" notation inside a tag is already > something that should then be done inside a controller.
I disagree - this is something that should be done by the model: news.getImages() or something should implement the query - it's annoying to have to know that the relation is a posrel when what you want is an ordered list of images related to the news object, and it makes it hard to change the datamodel later. The news class/builder/whatever should be the place to implement this. Ofcourse, right now it's not easy to extend a node (except sort of via the functions framework), and building a new model "on top of" the bride nodes (encapsulating the nodes and nodemanagers) gets you in all kinds of trouble, so I'm not sure how to do this "right" in MMBase... > With this in mind i have been using struts tiles. It puts 'queries' like > this in a config file, the query itself is executed by a struts controller > accessing MMBase through the bridge, in your presentation jsp you then > 'insert' this 'definition' which is just a name with a simple tag: > > <tiles:insert definition="news"/> I have never seen this part of struts, looks interesting, at least it shouold make it easier to re-use queries throughout your jsp's. though I still don't like the separation of the model and the queries - for reasons stated above. Joost. _______________________________________________ Developers mailing list Developers@lists.mmbase.org http://lists.mmbase.org/mailman/listinfo/developers
