Hey there-- So I came up with a solution to this, but I suspect it's not very Wicket-y, so I'd like some suggestions on best practices:
We want a header component that can go on different pages, with 1 2 or 3 links to other pages. (Well, I guess ideally any #, but with my approach it was easier to match it to the maximum shown in the spec). Visually, the end result would be Back to: _LINK1_, _LINK2_ or _LINK3_ As far as i can tell, the links and their labels should be created by the page containing the component. The trouble is, since the HTML and wicket:id for displaying each link is in the HTML for the component, the page has to "know" what ID to assign its link (and it doesn't seem like you can change the id of a component object after its created, which would have meant the page could just hand a list of un-ID'd labeled links in, and the component could have re-IDed them to match the HTML) So the component has a static callback getIdPrefixForLink() and getIdPrefixForLinkLabel(), and the page uses that, and then uses that string + 0, 1, or 2 for the links its making and handing to the constructor of the Header component. So if the Component only gets 1 Labeled Link, it then creates placeholder objects for the other 2, to make sure the hierarchy as outlined in the HTML is still ok, and then just hides them. And there's a tad more logic for the commas and the "or". So, this all seems really hacky to me. What's a better way? In other words: Is having to make place holders for everything that ever MIGHT appear on a page or component, and then making them invisible when you don't need them, the Wicket way, or is there something more direct? And/or is there a standard way of letting parent pages or component make subsubcomponents to be added to a subcomponent (e.g the Page making PageLinks to be added to the Header component -- incidentally I can't just pass in a reference to the class, because of what we had to do to make "lazy loading" links that don't fully instantiate the page they go to until that link is clicked.) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
