At 16:56 01/15/01, Will Stranathan wrote:
>There are (at least) two phases to populating the Context for rendering on
>the template:
>
>1) When submitting a form, make sure that the action says something like
>action="$link.setPage("ViewResults.vm").setAction("SubmitQuery")" When
>you do this, the appropriate doWhatever(RunData, Context) method in
>SubmitQuery.class will be called, and you can put stuff into the context there.
>2) Furthermore, when ViewResults.vm is rendered, it will search for a
>ViewResults class with a doBuildTemplate(RunData, Context) method that can
>also be used for populating the Context which is what the template will
>use to populate itself.
Ok, I understand that there are two possibilities, I just wonder if the
second one is "clean". Somebody who doesn't know turbine well would expect
screens to be a view and not partly view, partly controller. Furthermore,
if I choose to use possibility 1 only, DefaultPage still forces me to
provide an empty <screen>.class for every screen I use - even if this
screen is a pure view (template) that doesn't need any code.
Well, I suppose that if I don't want this I'll have to implement my own
page class, it's just that in my opinion 1) should be the standard way and
not 2).
But that's my 2 cents. ;-)
ingo.
>Although my examples here used Velocity, I'm sure it works similarly in JSP.
>
>Will Stranathan
>
>ingo schuster wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>I'm slightly confused about how the templating in turbine is supposed to
>>be used.
>>Speaking in M-V-C, I assumed that the screen templates would be the view,
>>just displaying the results of the processing that the controller
>>(turbine, action) has done.
>>But if I use that approach (action does the processing, provides the
>>screen with the results, and the screen is simply a template file, in my
>>case a jsp), won't then the DefaultPage attempt to load the screen.class
>>in order to ask it for the layout? If my screen is only of a template
>>file, there is no class to instantiate!
>>So, do I have to override the doBuild in my JspPage?
>>ingo.
>>
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