Didn't mean to jab at you; I'm trying to fix a lot of bugs and pay the mortgage, so I lose track of some little things.
The static structure of Tapestry makes this coordination pretty difficult. I think the best thing would be to add a "prerender" parameter to ListEdit that would default on, and can be turned off in the case that the FieldLabel occurs after the field. Yes, it would be nice if they could play well together. It's possible that a future, and much different, version of Tapestry will do two passes over the render tree to handle situations like this. On 9/7/05, Jonas Maurus (JIRA) <[email protected]> wrote: > [ > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TAPESTRY-517?page=comments#action_12322826 > ] > > Jonas Maurus commented on TAPESTRY-517: > --------------------------------------- > > I honestly don't know why I feel attacked by you, but you didn't say that > this is hard to fix, at least not in any official comments you've made. > > Of course, _I know it's hard to fix_, otherwise I'd have a well thought-out > patch by now. I _explicitly_ called my code a work-around, because _it is_ > bad design. I described 3 additional approaches to fix the problem, none of > which I feel would be able to land in time for 4.0 final because they'd > break existing components and change existing contracts or introduce more bad > design, but at the component level. Providing the one component where this > bug manifests itself right now with a work-around parameter, which was your > suggestion, only pushes the bug down the road to be rediscovered by (I'd > guess) primarily AJAX components and makes handling FieldLabel's awkward. > > Not fixing this bug would mean to ship Tapestry with components that work > only if they're used in a certain order, which is, I'd say, _worse_. > Especially since they don't fail "gracefully". > > At the center of the problem is Tapestry's quirky identity concept, which > might even be a primary cause for quick page rendering and low memory > consumption, so it probably should be kept that way, but it doesn't allow > simple loop-handling, I've documented that in my other comments on this bug. > > I believe more and more that my last comment (changing IdAllocator so it can > "look into the future") is the way to go. I'm experimenting with different > approaches in my spare time. Nevertheless, I seem to remember seeing multiple > ways to get Ids in the current Tapestry codebase, so this would have to be > unified first, then handling Ids should probably become a HiveMind service. > I'm still trying to make loop-handling transparent, so a component doesn't > have to know it's in a loop and a "looping component" doesn't have to do any > special handling, but this is not easily done. Making it possible to > prerender a page's "identity tree" is my current idea that I'm experimenting > with. > > I've called for developer input multiple times, in JIRA and on the mailing > list and received no reply. If there existed a consensus on how to fix this > for 4.0, I'd be more than willing to fix this properly, but I'll be out of > the country during the last two weeks of september. I don't mind working on > this until then and after coming back and I'd welcome any help. Perhaps you > could outline what mechanism you're thinking of, then, at least, there'd be a > goal to work toward. > > > > Using a FieldLabel component after the decorated form component causes the > > FieldLabel's id attribute to be wrong > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Key: TAPESTRY-517 > > URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TAPESTRY-517 > > Project: Tapestry > > Type: Bug > > Components: Framework > > Versions: 4.0 > > Reporter: Jonas Maurus > > Assignee: Howard M. Lewis Ship > > Attachments: AbstractFormComponent.clientid_fix.diff, > > AbstractFormComponent.clientid_fix_2.diff, > > AbstractFormComponent.clientid_fix_3.diff, > > AbstractFormComponent.clientid_fix_4.diff, > > AbstractFormComponent.clientid_fix_cvs_HEAD_20050825_1358.diff, > > TAPESTRY-517.clientid_fix.diff > > > > Quoting from TAPESTRY-409: > > <!-- page definition --> > > <component id="bookkeeperRCB" type="Checkbox"> > > <binding name="selected" value="hasBookkeeperRole" /> > > </component> > > > > <component id="adminRCB" type="Checkbox"> > > <binding name="selected" value="hasAdministratorRole" /> > > </component> > > <!-- page template --> > > <tr> > > <td><input jwcid="bookkeeperRCB" type="checkbox" value="Y" /></td> > > <td><label jwcid="@FieldLabel" for="bookkeeper" > > field="ognl:components.bookkeeperRCB" > > displayName="message:form.roles.bookkeeper">Bookkeeper</label></td> > > </tr> > > <tr> > > <td><input jwcid="adminRCB" type="checkbox" value="Y" /></td> > > <td><label jwcid="@FieldLabel" for="admin" > > field="ognl:components.adminRCB" > > displayName="message:form.roles.administrator">Administrator</label></td> > > </tr> > > yields: > > <tr> > > <td><input type="checkbox" name="bookkeeperRCB" id="bookkeeperRCB" > > value="Y"/></td> > > <td><label for="bookkeeperRCB$0">Bookkeeper</label></td> > > </tr> > > <tr> > > <td><input type="checkbox" name="adminRCB" checked="checked" > > id="adminRCB" value="Y"/></td> > > <td><label for="adminRCB$0">Administrator</label></td> > > </tr> > > as you can see the generated fieldnames ("bookkeeperRCB$0"...) are wrong. > > This always results in a stale-link exception. > > I tracked down the bug: FieldLabel calls prerenderField() which in turn > > causes an uniqueId to be allocated in > > AbstractFormComponent.renderIdAttribute. Everything works out when the > > FieldLabel precedes the form component it decorates. If it comes after the > > form component, IRequestCycle.getUniqueId() will already have stored an id > > for the component and return a new one. > > I'm not quite sure about the mechanics described above, as I don't fully > > understand FormSupportImpl yet, perhaps someone else can shed light on this. > > However, the allocated client id wasn't cached properly in > > AbstractFormComponent.renderIdAttribute. 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