Re: Adding a User Object to the Component Class

2009-11-27 Thread Keith Bennett
Igor Martijn - Thanks for all the information. I didn't know about the existence of metadata in the various classes; that's what I was looking for. I have a question about the metadata implementation. The javadoc indicates that the special MetaDataKey approach (rather than using a

Adding a User Object to the Component Class

2009-11-26 Thread Keith Bennett
All - I'm coding a Wicket table and would like all the components in the table to have access to a specific reference. Another framework I worked with a very long time ago (Vermont Views, I believe) addressed this by providing a user pointer in the class that could be used for any

Re: Adding a User Object to the Component Class

2009-11-26 Thread Igor Vaynberg
create your own subclass of websession that holds the user and then anywhere within a wicket request you can get to it via: ((MySession)Session.get()).getUser() -igor On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Keith Bennett keithrbenn...@gmail.com wrote: All - I'm coding a Wicket table and would like

Re: Adding a User Object to the Component Class

2009-11-26 Thread Keith Bennett
Igor - Thanks for responding. The User solution would work where all components would share the same reference, but I need each table would have its own reference. Also, I was thinking it would be nice for each component to have its own Object. I realize I could have been clearer about

Re: Adding a User Object to the Component Class

2009-11-26 Thread Martijn Dashorst
Adding another reference to component would increase the memory footprint for all users. You are the first one to ask so there's little to no demand for it. Wicket already has a default object slot: the model. If that doesn't solve your problem use the metadata. Martijn On Friday, November 27,

Re: Adding a User Object to the Component Class

2009-11-26 Thread Igor Vaynberg
datatable.setmetadata(mykey, myobject); .. somewhere in a component under datatable public mytype findreference() { datatable table=findparent(datatable.class); return table.getmetadata(mykey); } -igor On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Keith Bennett keithrbenn...@gmail.com wrote: