Given two hibernate objects and a many-to-one relationship
school
{
name
}
student
{
firstname
@ManyToOne
school
}
I want to pass something like this into a BeanEditForm and have the it
invoke school.toString() or possibly, school.getName().
I know I can add a t:Parameter to t:BeanEditForm but it seems that I should
be able to somehow register the School type with Tapestry and have it simply
invoke school.toString() when required to render itself.
I've looked at
http://wiki.apache.org/tapestry/Tapestry5HowToCreateAPropertyEditBlock but
found it a bit confusing. At some high level, is there a brief synopsis of
the different players required to do this?
PropertyEditor
ValueEncoder
DataTypeAnalyzer
PropertyEditContext
@Environmental
the Model ... etc.
Now, on the other hand, is the BeanEditForm really considered just a starter
component and is generally not used for production code? In which case, is
it just fine to come up with custom solutions to determine types and how to
render them? Or is there a strong reason to go through all of this ... when
I want to render a nested Hibernate Entity with a toString().
Thanks,
-Luther
