glad it worked. i think one of the powers of tapestry is the ability to be able to tap into lifecycle methods, as also register listeners (like pageBeginRender)
i don't have exact answers to your question "but is this optimal?" - it depends on what you want to do. if you want your component to be agnostic of the page it is in, then it's better to follow the approach of the page injecting the initial value as done below. you could also configure your component to accept a parameter and set that as the initial value of the text field. this parameter could then be bound to a value on your page. hth - karthik. On 11/2/06, Gurps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Karthik.Nar, I made the change below to Result.java. It seems to work, but is this optimal? Is there a way for the component to automatically find out it's "parent page" to bind the value without using a "double" bucket brigade and/or without using component injection. I'm new to Tapestry still, so might not understand even what i'm talking about! Is this the best practice? Thank you for your advice. Result.java ------------------- package uk.co.gd.dao; import org.apache.tapestry.annotations.InjectComponent; import org.apache.tapestry.event.PageBeginRenderListener; import org.apache.tapestry.event.PageEvent; import org.apache.tapestry.html.BasePage; public abstract class Result extends BasePage implements PageBeginRenderListener { @InjectComponent("searchComponent") public abstract SearchComponent getSearchComponent(); public abstract void setSearchText(String searchText); public abstract String getSearchText(); public void pageBeginRender(PageEvent event) { if (event.getRequestCycle().isRewinding()) { System.out.println("in pagebeginrender but rewinding"); return; } System.out.println("in pagebeginrender not rewinding"); ((SearchComponent) getSearchComponent()).setSearchText(getSearchText()); } }