[SOLVED]Antw: Re: Problem with pages saved in a variable

2009-10-14 Thread Andri vonAllmen
Hi Stephane, The reason for not using the WO caching mechanism was, that I'm maintaining a application which has pageWithName methods ad infinitum and this method does always create a new instance of a page (please do correct me, if this is not true), which is not the behaviour I want it to

Re: [SOLVED]Antw: Re: Problem with pages saved in a variable

2009-10-14 Thread Mike Schrag
Can you explain this more in terms of the end result you're trying to achieve rather the approach you're trying at the moment? On Oct 14, 2009, at 4:03 AM, Andri vonAllmen wrote: Hi Stephane, The reason for not using the WO caching mechanism was, that I'm maintaining a application which

Re: [SOLVED]Antw: Re: Problem with pages saved in a variable

2009-10-14 Thread Andri vonAllmen
The end result: A user navigates from page A to page B to page C. Page C has a hyperlink to page A (return pageWithName(A)). If clicking on this hyperlink, page A shall be shown in the same state as it has been left (e.g. the same filter options, etc.). Mike Schrag msch...@mdimension.com

Re: [SOLVED]Antw: Re: Problem with pages saved in a variable

2009-10-14 Thread Mike Schrag
My recommendation is not to think of this in terms of preserving the page instance, and instead think of it in terms of preserving the underlying model state for the page and pass that around. Now you COULD actually pass a previous page instance into the next page instance so you come back

Re: [SOLVED]Antw: Re: Problem with pages saved in a variable

2009-10-14 Thread Henrique Gomes
I have some cases where before returning the 'next' page, I store the current page on a var on the next page, like 'previousPage' nextPage=pageWithName(blabla); nextPage.setPreviousPage(this); Then on that page I have a link or button that returns previousPage. return previousPage; Seems