On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Sean Schofield wrote:
I wanted to kick off a new thread dedicated to my proposed solution that would allow the JSP developer to indicate whether they wanted to "force" the use of the id attribute supplied (instead of using the one generated by the component.)
The first thing is to square away the name of the attribute. It has been suggested that we could use an attribute named "directId" or "styleId". StyleId would be in keeping with Struts but I personally allways found that to be confusing.
After thinking about it, I concluded that we probably don't want either of those choices because they would necessitate writing the id twice.
ex. <h:input id='foo' ... directId='foo' />
... Or sometimes using id and sometimes using directId.
I think a better alternative is to have an attribute that is true/false. I would suggest either one of the following "override","overrideId", "force", "forceId".
ex. <h:input id='foo' ... force='true'/>
My personal vote is for 'force'. Do people agree with the true/false approach? If so, which attribute name do you think we should use?
The approach is fine, but I don't like 'force' because it says nothing about what it applies to. I'd prefer 'forceId' or maybe even 'useIdAsIs'.
-- Martin Cooper
TIA, sean
