[woody] bizdata, JXTemplate

[Mark Lundquist]

Hi,

I'm using Woody+Flow but not using the binding framework yet. I'm passing an object to the view layer in the bizdata parameter to showForm(). I wrapped my Woody template in a <jx:template> and started my form display pipeline with the JX generator, and it all worked great.

Then I thought "wait a minute, the Woody transformer is already doing JXPath" (witness "#{$continuation/id}). So, I un-wrapped my Woody template, changed my expression to JXPath syntax (I was using Jexl at the time), and replaced the JX generator with the XML "file" generator.

But now, my expressions aren't being substituted anymore.

Was all that a bad think?

Then I thought (maybe wrongly), "Well, somewhere arbitrary JXPath expressions have to be handled in order to support the binding framework". So I changed my flow to be invoked by woody() (i.e., made the form a parameter to the function instead of creating it locally), and changed the sitemap to invoke the flow via woody() (even though I don't have a binding).

That didn't help. So either:

(a) the JXPath magic is not in woody() or invoked directly by woody(), instead it's in the binding core; or,

(b) I'm just plain-old screwing up somewhere.

Can someone enlighten me?

Also, this begs another question... soon I want to start using the binding framework, but I may still need to pass things into the showForm() bizdata — things that are not bound to the model and do not have to do with the form per se, but rather with other page elements. When using the binding framework, will I still need to use the <jx:template> and JX generator to interpolate the bizdata?

Thanks for any insight,
-- Mark