Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-10-29 Thread Wayne Pope
Hi, Francisco and I here where discussing whether we could figure a way of having some form of static/compile time checking on our (Compound)PropertyModels, as I'm a bit concerned long term about some nasty runtime bugs that might slip through the testing coverage. Francisco found this thread -

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-10-29 Thread Nino Saturnino Martinez Vazquez Wael
Yeah, I must say im looking forward to getting Wicket-1327 a reality too.. Wayne Pope wrote: Hi, Francisco and I here where discussing whether we could figure a way of having some form of static/compile time checking on our (Compound)PropertyModels, as I'm a bit concerned long term about some

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-10-29 Thread Maarten Bosteels
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Wayne Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Francisco and I here where discussing whether we could figure a way of having some form of static/compile time checking on our (Compound)PropertyModels, as I'm a bit concerned long term about some nasty runtime bugs

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-10-29 Thread Wayne Pope
Hi Maarten interesting idea thanks. I think the major issue is the null pointer checking. for your: public class Customer implements Serializable { public final IModelString firstName = new ModelString(); public final IModelString lastName = new ModelString(); } do you wrap this around you

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-10-29 Thread Wayne Pope
Hi Johan, we're now maigrating to 1.4 M3 - do you have any idea roughly when the release proper of 1.4 would be? thanks Wayne On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Johan Compagner [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: wicket 1.5 first 1.4 has to be released On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Wayne Pope [EMAIL

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-10-29 Thread francisco treacy
hi, One problem I see with this approach is when you need null-checking for nested properties: eg: new TextFieldString(city, customer.address.getObject().city ); exactly, that is *the* problem otherwise we could have new AlternativeCompoundPropertyModel(customer.getAddress().getCity());

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-10-29 Thread Maarten Bosteels
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Wayne Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Maarten interesting idea thanks. I think the major issue is the null pointer checking. for your: public class Customer implements Serializable { public final IModelString firstName = new ModelString(); public

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-10-29 Thread francisco treacy
hi maarten About the null checking, I will see if I can avoid having nested null values in my proof-of-concept project. thing is the object chain is going to be resolved before it gets passed in - there's nothing you can do about it inside your class :( an eventual null pointer exception would

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-10-29 Thread Maarten Bosteels
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:47 AM, francisco treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi maarten About the null checking, I will see if I can avoid having nested null values in my proof-of-concept project. thing is the object chain is going to be resolved before it gets passed in - there's

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-10-29 Thread Martijn Dashorst
afiar the proxy based model is null safe. Martijn On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:47 AM, francisco treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi maarten About the null checking, I will see if I can avoid having nested null values in my proof-of-concept project. thing is the object chain is going to be

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-10-29 Thread Maarten Bosteels
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Martijn Dashorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: afiar the proxy based model is null safe. Hello Martijn, But IIUC it's not refactor-friendly (and no navigation and code completion), right ? I really hope they add first-class properties (that is, not string-based)

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-10-29 Thread Maarten Bosteels
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Maarten Bosteels [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:47 AM, francisco treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi maarten About the null checking, I will see if I can avoid having nested null values in my proof-of-concept project. thing is the

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-10-29 Thread Johan Compagner
it is refactor friendly and you also have code completion (it works with generics) johan On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Maarten Bosteels [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Martijn Dashorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: afiar the proxy based model is null safe.

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-10-29 Thread James Carman
You shouldn't muddy up your domain with view-specific logic (the IModel interface). On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Maarten Bosteels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Wayne Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Francisco and I here where discussing whether we could

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-10-29 Thread francisco treacy
i agree - that's why i think it would be difficult to avoid an eventual NPE in something like customer.getAddress().getCity().getBlabla() in that case On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:09 PM, James Carman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You shouldn't muddy up your domain with view-specific logic (the IModel

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-10-29 Thread James Carman
It can be done, but the expression languages that I've used don't do it out of the box, so that would be an issue with using the proxy approach. You'd have to roll your own On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:14 AM, francisco treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i agree - that's why i think it would be

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-10-29 Thread Maarten Bosteels
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:09 PM, James Carman [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: You shouldn't muddy up your domain with view-specific logic (the IModel interface). In my example I just used IModelT instead of PropertyT because everybody knows IModel. Have a look at

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-10-29 Thread Maarten Bosteels
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 2:24 PM, James Carman [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: The IModel interface, if you're talking about the one from Wicket, is a view-specific interface (it comes with a view layer library). James, Have you actually read what I wrote ? Maarten On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:20

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-10-29 Thread James Carman
Sorry, but I am on many mailing lists as part of my open source involvement. I apologize if I breezed over some of what you wrote. I see now where you said you could use the Property API from that other project, which is what I would suggest as opposed to IModel from the Wicket library if you're

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-10-29 Thread James Carman
The IModel interface, if you're talking about the one from Wicket, is a view-specific interface (it comes with a view layer library). On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Maarten Bosteels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:09 PM, James Carman [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: You shouldn't

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-03-08 Thread Johan Compagner
Well, it'll be built into v1.1 if you need it. :) I took care of that yesterday. It wasn't as easy as it might seem to make sure your proxies are serializable. CGLIB didn't want to play nice. They don't make their NoOp classes serializable for some reason. I had a little easier time

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-03-08 Thread James Carman
On 3/8/08, Johan Compagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it'll be built into v1.1 if you need it. :) I took care of that yesterday. It wasn't as easy as it might seem to make sure your proxies are serializable. CGLIB didn't want to play nice. They don't make their NoOp

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-03-08 Thread James Carman
On 3/8/08, James Carman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/8/08, Johan Compagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it'll be built into v1.1 if you need it. :) I took care of that yesterday. It wasn't as easy as it might seem to make sure your proxies are serializable.

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-03-08 Thread Johan Compagner
for wicket this is a feature it really should have now it defeats the purpose i have to make a decission in wicket which factory i use Then i can just as well directly compile against cglib. I cant make the api that way that the developer has to give that factory to use. That would be completely

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-03-08 Thread James Carman
On 3/8/08, Johan Compagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for wicket this is a feature it really should have now it defeats the purpose i have to make a decission in wicket which factory i use Then i can just as well directly compile against cglib. I cant make the api that way that the

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-03-08 Thread James Carman
I see the JIRA, I'll go ahead and start the discussion on the dev list. On 3/8/08, James Carman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/8/08, Johan Compagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for wicket this is a feature it really should have now it defeats the purpose i have to make a decission in wicket

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-03-08 Thread James Carman
Couldn't you also do: ProxyFactory pf = ...; new SharedPropertyModelCustomer(pf, customer); So, the client tells you what proxy factory implementation to use. On 3/8/08, James Carman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see the JIRA, I'll go ahead and start the discussion on the dev list. On 3/8/08,

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-03-08 Thread Johan Compagner
no i really dont like that then everywhere there code they need to do that, that is not an option. and they have to program themselfs agains the proxy api. I dont want that developers also have the learn/do that This is something commons-proxy needs to do On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 3:29 PM, James

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-28 Thread Johan Compagner
Serialization is not a problem for what we have build now because we dont keep references to the proxies in the session. We just use them at construction time On 2/27/08, James Carman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/26/08, Johan Compagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes i would like to have

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-27 Thread Gabor Szokoli
On 2/26/08, Sebastiaan van Erk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The proxy based approach solves exactly this problem. Wow, fancy! :-) Thanks for sharing it, we'll probably use it too. The rest is by no means ment to discredit your effort, more like the devils advocate grumbling in front of the TV

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-27 Thread James Carman
On 2/26/08, James Carman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, if you wait a bit until I do another release of Commons Proxy, it'll have that feature built in. Also, you could use Javassist if you wanted to very easily. Actually, after I played around a bit, it looks like CGLIB does this out of

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-27 Thread James Carman
On 2/26/08, Johan Compagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes i would like to have something like commons proxy because i dont want if possible a direct dependency on cglib. It would be coool that we have a default impl that is based on jdk itself (so only interface support). Then drop in cglib

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-27 Thread Timo Rantalaiho
Hello, On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Sebastiaan van Erk wrote: Then a refactor of the customerName property (and the getCustomerName() method) in an IDE such as Eclipse or NetBeans will *silently* break the above code, which you will discover only at runtime... The proxy based approach solves

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-26 Thread Sebastiaan van Erk
Matej Knopp wrote: model.getFirstName() can't really return IModel, if Customer.getFirstName() returns string. Anyway, I like the idea, but I don't like the syntax. instead of one line [add(new TextField(id, model).setRequred(true)) ] you have now three separate lines. So I was thinking of

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-26 Thread Matej Knopp
model.getFirstName() can't really return IModel, if Customer.getFirstName() returns string. Anyway, I like the idea, but I don't like the syntax. instead of one line [add(new TextField(id, model).setRequred(true)) ] you have now three separate lines. So I was thinking of something more like

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-26 Thread Matej Knopp
Hi, On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Sebastiaan van Erk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matej Knopp wrote: model.getFirstName() can't really return IModel, if Customer.getFirstName() returns string. Anyway, I like the idea, but I don't like the syntax. instead of one line [add(new

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-26 Thread Sebastiaan van Erk
Matej Knopp wrote: Hi, On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Sebastiaan van Erk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matej Knopp wrote: model.getFirstName() can't really return IModel, if Customer.getFirstName() returns string. Anyway, I like the idea, but I don't like the syntax. instead of one

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-26 Thread Matej Knopp
We've reworked the implementation a bit,it works like this: SafePropertyModelPerson p = new SafePropertyModelPerson(new Person()); TextField field = new TextField(name, p.bind(p.property().getFirstName())); It's attached to the JIRA issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-1327

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-26 Thread Scott Swank
I just added a relevant note about serialization (learned the hard way...) to the jira. - Scott On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Matej Knopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've reworked the implementation a bit,it works like this: SafePropertyModelPerson p = new SafePropertyModelPerson(new

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-26 Thread atul singh
I feel this approach does NOT solve a problem.Its just an alternative .. On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Matej Knopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've reworked the implementation a bit,it works like this: SafePropertyModelPerson p = new SafePropertyModelPerson(new Person()); TextField

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-26 Thread Sebastiaan van Erk
Well, there's a problem with normal PropertyModels (or CompoundPropertyModels). For example, if you have the following textfield: TextField tf = new TextField(name, new PropertyModel(customer, customerName)); Then a refactor of the customerName property (and the getCustomerName() method)

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-26 Thread James Carman
Have you tried this out using load testing? You are creating a new class every time you create a model. Have you run out of permgen space? On 2/26/08, Sebastiaan van Erk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, there's a problem with normal PropertyModels (or CompoundPropertyModels). For example,

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-26 Thread Igor Vaynberg
we can cache the created proxy class and simply give each instance a new handler... -igor On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:26 AM, James Carman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried this out using load testing? You are creating a new class every time you create a model. Have you run out of

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-26 Thread James Carman
So, you would cache the generated class (based on the type passed in) and then have it generate a new object each time. Then, cast that object to Factory and set its callbacks? On 2/26/08, Igor Vaynberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we can cache the created proxy class and simply give each instance

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-26 Thread Igor Vaynberg
not really sure. but this is how it would work. proxies in cglib take handlers. so you would do: String key=modelclass.getname(); Class proxy=cache.get(key); if (proxy==null) { proxy=cglib.createproxy(modelclass); cache.put(key,proxy); } proxyhandler handler=new proxyhandler(this); Object

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-26 Thread James Carman
Well, if you wait a bit until I do another release of Commons Proxy, it'll have that feature built in. Also, you could use Javassist if you wanted to very easily. On 2/26/08, Igor Vaynberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: not really sure. but this is how it would work. proxies in cglib take

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-26 Thread Sam Barnum
IntelliJ does a good job of locating String usages of property names when you refactor a property name, which is nice. Not sure if Eclipse/Netbeans do this also. If you use CompoundPropertyModels then wouldn't refactoring your business objects will still silently break code? It seems

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-26 Thread James Carman
On 2/26/08, Igor Vaynberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: looking at commons-proxy we just need an invoker proxy. if you can do the caching behind the scenes for us that would be great. not sure what the code uses right now, cglib directly or something else. Commons Proxy allows you to swap out

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-26 Thread Igor Vaynberg
looking at commons-proxy we just need an invoker proxy. if you can do the caching behind the scenes for us that would be great. not sure what the code uses right now, cglib directly or something else. -igor On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:53 AM, James Carman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, if you

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-26 Thread Scott Swank
I'm working on a non-trivial app that uses this model (we submitted it), and I like it. :) On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Sam Barnum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IntelliJ does a good job of locating String usages of property names when you refactor a property name, which is nice. Not sure if

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-26 Thread Johan Compagner
Yes i would like to have something like commons proxy because i dont want if possible a direct dependency on cglib. It would be coool that we have a default impl that is based on jdk itself (so only interface support). Then drop in cglib and you have support for also classes On 2/26/08, James

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-26 Thread Johan Compagner
We dont serialize the expression builder see detach On 2/26/08, Scott Swank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just added a relevant note about serialization (learned the hard way...) to the jira. - Scott On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Matej Knopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've reworked the

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-08 Thread Johan Compagner
i try to look at this this weekend, but i have a quick question I find it a bit verbose can't it be a bit shorter like this (just an example) SharedPropertyModelCustomer model = new SharedPropertyModelCustomer(customer); this.setModel(model); FormComponent firstName = new

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-08 Thread Johan Compagner
don't worry about creating the models That will happen anyway in 1.3 (that needs to be done for example to get the right object especially when we generify stuff) see CompoundPropertyModel.wrapOnInheritance() joan On Feb 8, 2008 5:41 PM, Scott Swank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting. So

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-08 Thread Scott Swank
Interesting. So model.getFirstName() would return a PropetyModel based on the results of proxy.eval()? If I understand you correctly that creates many models (one per component) instead of reusing a single model, but that may well not be the end of the world. Or does getFirstName() return

RE: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-07 Thread Maeder Thomas
@wicket.apache.org Subject: Re: CompoundModel based on proxies i disagree. i dont think we should be doing more with cglib in core or any other bytecode magic. have you ever tried to walk code that uses bytecode generation? its a nightmare. one of my favorite things about wicket

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-07 Thread Sam Barnum
To: users@wicket.apache.org Subject: Re: CompoundModel based on proxies i disagree. i dont think we should be doing more with cglib in core or any other bytecode magic. have you ever tried to walk code that uses bytecode generation? its a nightmare. one of my favorite things about wicket

RE: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-06 Thread Hoover, William
very nice! -Original Message- From: Scott Swank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 12:57 PM To: Wicket User List Subject: CompoundModel based on proxies One of our more clever developers created a CompoundPropertyModel that uses a cglib proxy to strongly bind

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-06 Thread Carl-Eric Menzel
Scott Swank wrote: We're happy to share if folk like this approach. N.B. that the .to() call is for readability rather than out of any necessity. I'm quite interested in this. This looks like it is just crazy and clever enough to be really useful :-) Thanks! Carl-Eric

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-06 Thread Martijn Dashorst
please share for Wicket 1.4, if cglib's license is permitting, I think we should add this to core. Martijn On 2/6/08, Scott Swank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of our more clever developers created a CompoundPropertyModel that uses a cglib proxy to strongly bind the mutators to the model. It

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-06 Thread Igor Vaynberg
if not cglib i can rewrite that with asm, its license is very liberal and we can even embed it into wicket - at least thats what ive done for salve to avoid version conflicts with other asm versions. -igor On Feb 6, 2008 1:04 PM, Martijn Dashorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: please share for

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-06 Thread Scott Swank
The cglib website http://cglib.sourceforge.net/ points here for their license: http://www.apache.org/foundation/licence-FAQ.html So I don't think there are any issues. :) Are there any issues with attaching a zip file to an e-mail, or would you prefer another means? On Feb 6, 2008 1:06 PM,

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-06 Thread Daniel Stoch
I'm quite interested too. Daniel On 2008-02-06, at 19:27, Carl-Eric Menzel wrote: Scott Swank wrote: We're happy to share if folk like this approach. N.B. that the .to() call is for readability rather than out of any necessity. I'm quite interested in this. This looks like it is just

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-06 Thread Igor Vaynberg
jira, that way you can click the im donating attachment to the project through ASL license checkbox -igor On Feb 6, 2008 1:10 PM, Scott Swank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The cglib website http://cglib.sourceforge.net/ points here for their license:

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-06 Thread Scott Swank
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-1327 On Feb 6, 2008 1:12 PM, Igor Vaynberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jira, that way you can click the im donating attachment to the project through ASL license checkbox -igor On Feb 6, 2008 1:10 PM, Scott Swank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-06 Thread Martijn Dashorst
Thanks! And I always thought: what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas... Martijn On 2/6/08, Scott Swank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-1327 On Feb 6, 2008 1:12 PM, Igor Vaynberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jira, that way you can click the im donating

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-06 Thread Scott Swank
No problem. I didn't even write a line of it. :) On Feb 6, 2008 2:30 PM, Martijn Dashorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks! And I always thought: what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas... Martijn - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-06 Thread Martijn Dashorst
On 2/7/08, Scott Swank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No problem. I didn't even write a line of it. :) Just for the record keeping: are you allowed to grant us the use of said model? Typically that should be done by the original copyright holder. Martijn -- Buy Wicket in Action:

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-06 Thread Scott Swank
I have his approval, but I can get him if you like. Let me know either way. On Feb 6, 2008 3:22 PM, Martijn Dashorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/7/08, Scott Swank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No problem. I didn't even write a line of it. :) Just for the record keeping: are you allowed to

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-06 Thread Martijn Dashorst
If he could leave a comment on the issue that would be great. If he has more ideas like this, get him to open a JIRA account :) Martijn On 2/7/08, Scott Swank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have his approval, but I can get him if you like. Let me know either way. On Feb 6, 2008 3:22 PM, Martijn

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-06 Thread Jonathan Locke
like BoundCompoundPropertyModel, but safer. i think this almost might be too clever as it sacrifices some intuitiveness. also, it's filling in for a missing java feature. this should really be: boundModel.bind(component, firstName.property) (where .property, .field and .method are

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-06 Thread Jonathan Locke
another thing that occurs to me is that perhaps the method would be more generalized we basically made a fill-in for the missing .property feature. we could have a method like Reflection.property(expr) return a property expression string (or a compiled version of it). this makes me think

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-06 Thread Igor Vaynberg
i disagree. i dont think we should be doing more with cglib in core or any other bytecode magic. have you ever tried to walk code that uses bytecode generation? its a nightmare. one of my favorite things about wicket is that it is just java and its easy as hell to debug. im not really against

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-06 Thread Jonathan Locke
so you don't support this model then? igor.vaynberg wrote: i disagree. i dont think we should be doing more with cglib in core or any other bytecode magic. have you ever tried to walk code that uses bytecode generation? its a nightmare. one of my favorite things about wicket is that it

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-06 Thread Igor Vaynberg
i support it in a non-core module -igor On Feb 6, 2008 5:41 PM, Jonathan Locke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so you don't support this model then? igor.vaynberg wrote: i disagree. i dont think we should be doing more with cglib in core or any other bytecode magic. have you ever tried to

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-06 Thread Scott Swank
There are additional considerations (at least in this implementation), all of which should be familiar to users of Hibernate or any proxy-based framework. 1) classes may not be final 2) methods may not be final 3) classes must have a no-method constructor Some folk may not be happy with these

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-06 Thread James Carman
If you're interested in using proxies, you could check out Apache Commons Proxy. It hasn't been released yet, but I would imagine we could get a release out the door in short order if it was wanted. The cool thing about ACP is that you can swap out the proxying technology easily (JDK proxies,

Re: CompoundModel based on proxies

2008-02-06 Thread Jonathan Locke
makes sense to me. igor.vaynberg wrote: i support it in a non-core module -igor On Feb 6, 2008 5:41 PM, Jonathan Locke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so you don't support this model then? igor.vaynberg wrote: i disagree. i dont think we should be doing more with cglib in core