Hi,
The portlet spec has the concept of WindowStates and sometimes Portlets
make use of them.
By using WindowStates as the mechanism to deliver content to external
apps, it means that one cannot fully make use of all window states
within that content.
You might argue that this is an entirely appropriate use of
WindowStates. The point highlighted in the thread was that often
Portelts are sloppily developed and make assumptions about WindowState.
A typical use case is for a portlet to change its window state at some
point. Well written portlets would check their current window state
before doing this (e.g. if SEPARATED then don't change or only change if
current == NORMAL).
A completely alternative "external rendering" approach that didn't use
WindowStates and therefore could be made to support all window states
would not suffer from these "deficiencies".
-- Anthohny.
On 17/04/15 01:05, James Wennmacher wrote:
Hi Anthony.
Thanks for bringing my attention to this thread. I'm not sure I fully
follow it. Can you clarify for me what the deficiencies are? Thanks.
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On 04/14/2015 03:59 PM, Anthony Colebourne wrote:
Hi James,
Now seems like an appropriate time to draw your attention to this thread.
http://jasig.275507.n4.nabble.com/Detached-WindowState-td4657565.html
It highlights this deficiencies in the WindowState based approach to
getting content rendered for consumption in an external app.
Thanks,
Anthony.
On 14/04/15 21:58, James Wennmacher wrote:
A request to add a new window state came about due to Oakland which has
a native uMobile app found that DETACHED window state which the uMobile
app uses behaves differently with uPortal 4.1+. Refer to
https://issues.jasig.org/browse/UP-4440.
I plan to add a new window state SEPARATED which is like the old
DETACHED window state. I'm OK with the name, but not jumping up for
joy. It's fairly clear and consistent (at least as much as DETACHED
was). Anyone have a better name?
See issue for details and reasoning.
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