Hi,
I never had any problem using the ListViews and i
use it extensively in my project.
So i would say no no for any API breakages.
If repeaters are better solutions i am for
promoting that.
thanks
Dipu
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eelco Hillenius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 9:55
PM
Subject: [Wicket-user] ListViews vs repeaters (was:
Form + pull modelListView + FormValidators)
> people think in general about ListViews vs repeaters (package
> wicket.extensions.markup.html.repeater and kids)? Are repeaters a
> better solution in general/ only for certain cases (database) or just
> different?
>
> I'm asking this because if enough people think repeaters do provide a
> better alternative, we should soft-deprecate ListView and start
> promoting the repeaters more. Now would be a good time, specifically
> because 2.0 is still open for changes and I would use them in favor of
> ListViews in Wicket In Action.
>
> Speak up please, everyone :)
>
> Eelco
>
>
> On 8/10/06, Igor Vaynberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> i dont think this is a problem with listview. i think joni misunderstood
>> what setreuseitems() did and that even with pull models it makes sense. in
>> this particular case dataview would suffer the exact same problems as the
>> listview save one - you will not forget to override getlistitemmodel()
>> because it is part of the idataprovider interface. but even with a dataview
>> you would have to set an item reuse strategy which is equivalent to calling
>> setreuseitems(true) on the listview. in dataview, same as the listview, the
>> items would be recreated, etc - thats just the nature of repeaters in
>> wicket.
>>
>> -Igor
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8/10/06, Eelco Hillenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >
>> > I'm gradually getting to a conclusion that ListView sucks, and should be
>> > replaced with something more robust.
>>
>> It does suck that about 25% of the problems people have with Wicket
>> seems to come from the ListView.
>>
>> What do you think about the repeater packages? I'm still using
>> ListViews myself mostly; they do the job for me. But Igor created them
>> out of frustration with ListViews (and that was a long time ago). If
>> more people think repeaters are a better solution than ListViews,
>> maybe we should consider putting ListView more in the background (e.g.
>> red rid of them in examples and more specifically Wicket In Action),
>> and getting some repeaters over to the core project for Wicket 2.0.
>>
>> If there was ever a time to 'fix' this, it's now.
>>
>> Eelco
>
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