Yes - you're right I don't see where Shale would be helpful here, either.
Can you post your solution to enlighten us all?
regards,
Martin
On 2/14/06, Mark Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2/13/06, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 2/12/06, Mark Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Okay
> > >
> > > I've decided to let the renderer do the work of rendering parent and
> > > children. Moving on from that I'm having trouble understanding where I
> > > want to add child components. Doing this in the renderer seems wrong
> > > as I want to have different validators associated with components
> > > depending on a which country the component is being created for..
> > >
> > > I want to do something like
> > >
> > > if("EN".equals(mycomponent.getCountry ()) {
> > > //add UIInputs according to this country.
> > > }
> > >
> > > I'm just unsure which method in UIComponent I want to do this in.
> >
> > This is the kind of use case where Shale's[1] "view controller" API becomes
> > useful. The prerender() method is a perfect place to do this sort of thing
> > -- it is called immediately before rendering, even on the initial display of
> > a page.
> >
> > You can do the same thing yourself without Shale, but it's quite a bit more
> > work -- define a PhaseListener that listens for Render Response phase, and
> > set things up in the beforePhase() method. But it's a lot easier to let the
> > framework call you at the right time.
>
> I can get my head around how this would be handy were i doing the work
> in the backing bean, but I don't see how this would help create a
> component.
>
> I've managed to do what i need anyhow, many thanks for the responses..
>
> Mark
>
> >
> > > Mark
> >
> > Craig
> >
> > [1] http://struts.apache.org/struts-shale/
> >
> >
>
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