I also wish component subclassing was at least an option. What I don't like about copying and pasting from a Tapestry component is that I end up relying on some internal packages and classes. That makes me feel dirty.
Benny On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Andreas Bohnert <a...@weberhofer.at> wrote: > I agree. > I'm upgrading a big project from tapestry 3 to 5. > As I looked into the documentation and sources of tapestry 5 I thought: > wow, this is really great. it could not be any better! > > But if components are no meant to be subclassed this seems like a drawback > for me. You have to copy and adjust the code which does not fit into the > tapestry world (DRY principle) > If you use embedded components to extend a component you need an additional > (more or less useless) template file and you come in trouble if you use this > component multiple times in a page (because of the embedded components id > binding) > > Anyway, even if there is way to get around these problems with embedded > components I described, it would feel more natural for me if I just could > subclass a component. > > Andreas > > > > I ended up copying > > > Nicolas Bouillon wrote: > >> Le 11/05/2010 21:34, Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo a écrit : >> >>> 1.) Extend MySelect from Select >>>> I found no way to assign my model to the selects privat model. There is >>>> a setModel in Select but it seems to be there only for unit tests. >>>> >>> >>> Tapestry components weren't meant to be subclassed. >>> >> By the way, why that ? >> >> It's one thing I felt difficult, for example to change the way the >> GridPager is displayed (to display the number of pages, number of items), we >> had to do a big copy paste of the Grid component and the related components, >> instead of subclassing it. >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org > >
