Greg Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
I think it would be confusing to have both wtkx:id and @ID.
Just to clarify: the @ID annotation is not for setting _another_ id;
it is to specify into _which_ bean property the wtkx:id should be
injected.
I'm also not sure that the use case for such a feature has been
clearly articulated.
The use case is to distinguish event sources without having to
retrieve their instances, to write general purpose event listeners.
Example:
public class MyButtonPressListener implements ButtonPressListener {
public void buttonPressed(Button eventSource) {
if (eventSource.getId().equals("copy"))
executeCopyAction();
else if (eventSource.getId().equals("paste"))
executePasteAction();
}
}
This example is clearly not good programming style, because one could
as well write two separate button event listeners, and it is not
something that Pivot should encourage. However, there are some
situations where this might be handy.
Perhaps the automationID property of Component would suffice?
automationID would suffice, but then you'd have to assign two ids in the wtkx:
<Button wtkx:id="copy" automationID="copy" .../>
Regards,
Dirk
On May 7, 2010, at 3:23 AM, Dirk Möbius wrote:
On second thought, I admit Patrick has a point here. I'm not happy
with my own code example because there's too much boilerplate code.
The injected button members are not really needed.
Albeit, simply adding an "id" property to Component (analogous to
Swing's "name" property) is not a good solution either, because the
WTKXSerializer (soon to be named BeanSerializer) is more general
and unaware of Component -- it would be awkward to insert something
like:
if (bean instanceof Component)
((Component)bean).setId(...);
Instead I propose a new class annotation:
@Id
public class Component {
private String id;
// getter and setter...
}
You can also set the name of the id property:
@Id("name")
public class MyBean {
private String name;
// getter and setter...
}
If WTKXSerializer sees the @Id annotation on a bean, it calls its
setter, assuming its type is String. I think that would be general
enough.
@Id could also be named @WtkxId or @BxId.
What do you think?
Pivot 2.0?!?
Regards,
Dirk
Patrick Shea <[email protected]> wrote:
Unfortunately I don't come from an html background. I'm just
trying to reuse the same listener for more than one component but
I can't because I can't separate which is which!
This is where the id comes into play...
I don't think that any xml attribute should be hidden from the
java model, they should always be exposed.
At the very least the namedObjects map should be exposed and not
be private in the serializer.
Patrick
-----Original Message-----
From: "Greg Brown" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, May 3, 2010 6:24pm
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: How to retrieve wtkx:id?
I understand why you might expect it to work that way, especially
if you are coming from HTML, but it doesn't. Consider that Java
member variables are also accessible via reflection, but you still
can't get a variable name from a class instance. WTKX isn't a DOM
- it's just another way of instantiating classes.
Hope that helps clarify things.
Greg
On May 3, 2010, at 6:16 PM, Patrick Shea wrote:
Well, they are declared in xml as id's and used in code in
get(...) so they are quite public.
I was able to go around this by reflection but it's ugly and they
should really be exposed at the component level I think.
Patrick
-----Original Message-----
From: "Greg Brown" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, May 3, 2010 6:07pm
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: How to retrieve wtkx:id?
No. WTKX IDs don't work like HTML IDs - they are more like
variable names. Just as there is no way to retrieve a variable
name from an object instantiated in Java, there is no way to
retrieve an ID from an object declared in WTKX.
On May 3, 2010, at 10:20 AM, Patrick Shea wrote:
Is there a way to get the wtkx:id of a given component?
Thanks
Patrick
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Am Kielshof 29
D-51105 Köln
Fon +49 221 801916-0
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www.scoop-gmbh.de
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