-- geoff http://www.daemon.com.au/
Gary Menzel wrote:
Maybe it was my mistake - it was more of a "wish list" than a reality.
The concept would be to be able to pass arguments to the <con:container> tag as you mentioned. Then, when the container instaniates each rule it would pass over it's attribute collection (arguments are the collection for methods) to the rule in some way (preferably when the rule object was initialised). Then all those arguments would be available to each rule. Then you could pick and choose what arguments you want.
But - for now - you have to stick them in the Request scope (as far as I know).
Gary
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:56:00 +0800, Andrew Mercer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Gary,
I have read this a few times now and am still not sure how this would tie in with the containers and rules - or are you sugesting of bypassing those contraints and having an object that calls the rule directly (passing whatever you like)?
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:47:32 +1000, Gary Menzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Then - decouple.
Have an object instatiated somewhere - maybe in request scope - (it'd be nice if you could pass one over as a parameter to the container which in turn could pass that over to the rule) and just call that object globally to get the data you want.
Then - initialise that object with the "struct" (quite probably FORM) that you want the data to come from - or better still by calling methods that initialise the data internally.
Then you are only coupled to the object (because you can't pass it to the container). You can switch in a different object if you like, and then your Rule wont know the difference.
To fully de-couple things in FarCry it would require a significant redesigned of may of the tags, components and methods.
And - to answer Tim's question about "publishing rule".....
"Content is Content". And sometimes a form is content. I personally dont distinguish the difference between outputing "text" or an "image" from outputting a "form".
Regards, Gary
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:28:21 +1100, Tim Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 12/01/2005, at 2:12 PM, Andrew Mercer wrote:
the page has a form with a publish date which is used in the rule to find items published on that date
I was talking a more general case of using a publishing rule for form processing.
For your case it probably doesn't make any difference. Coupling it to the form scope isn't a big deal unless you see it being used w/o the form submission.
- tim
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