Hi Shoan,
the purpose of slots is to create reusable components. They can have
their own logic, but this is in no way required. If you're worried
about the overhead of an action execution with validation etc. you can
mark an action as "simple" by defining the method as follows:
class FooAction
{
....
public function isSimple()
{
return true;
}
....
}
This will skip all validation and action execution and will pass
control to the view returned from the actions 'getDefaultView' method.
It's a design decision to have a single mechanism for providing
reusable components instead of having slots, partials, etc that all do
something similar. This was you can enhance your component later on
without changing the way it is used.
So yes, slots are the way to go.
cheers
felix
On Aug 26, 2009, at 5:02 AM, Shoan Motwani wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How do I embed one view into another view of the same action? I am
> building a search engine and by default would like to display only the
> search box. But after searching, would like to see the search box on
> top of the table of results. Currently the search box is the 'Input'
> view and the tabular results is the 'ListView'. I looked at slots, but
> it felt like the purpose of slots was to embed one action into an
> another.
>
> Is there a cleaner way to do this other than using slots?
>
> Peace,
> Shoan.
>
>
>
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