Hi all - I've lurked here for a little while and am just embarking on
implementing a project using Turbine so I thought I'd pop my head up.
First I'd just like to say that I'm very impressed with Turbine's
elegance as an API, plus for obvious reasons quite chuffed that
someone else has written half my code already ;-)
Anyway I'm going to be using WebMacro, and it struck me that given Dave
Bryson's work with WebMacroSitePage etc it would be possible to write
even fewer Screens if the Action and WebMacro template shared a
WebContext. Then the Action could set up the WebContext and the template
display it.
If this is something that had been planned anyway then ignore my noise :)
If not I'd be happy to put together some patches. I would probably have
the WebMacroSitePage set up a WebContext in the user object's temp
hashtable and have a WebMacroSiteAction baseclass that wraps fetching
the context. The default WebMacroSiteScreen would then pass _that_
context into the template.
I guess that given the level of integration of WebMacro that Dave has
been suggesting on this list it might even make sense to put the context
in the RunData object? Either way only the 3 WebMacroSite* classes would
need to know where the context comes from.
A possible danger I can see is the weakening of the elegant separation
of MVC that Turbine's module structure encourages - definitely the bit I
like the most about Turbine coming from GUI app development to web apps
- if people took this as an excuse to write view logic in Actions, but
as long as it is clear that specific WebMacroSiteScreen derivations
should be written where specific view logic is needed this should be ok.
Excuse the slightly verbose form of my proposal, but partly I'm just
interested in bouncing my thoughts off the list to see if I'm
understanding this stuff as well as I think I am :)
Cheers,
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Sean Legassick
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