you dont need a panel for the repeater itself. as for variable component hierarchy inside the repeater itself, you are correct: you have to either use a panel or a fragment.
-igor On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Eric Rotick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought I understood the component hierarchy but then I started to tell > the guys about it and now I'm not so sure. > > If the markup defines a hierarchy as A contains B contains C, in effect, > this means that C is added to B which is added to A. If we expand B to be > more complex we can use maybe a Panel which we identify as B but inside it > is BA , BB and so on. So, all the time there is a direct relationship > between the wicket identified tags in the markup and the components in the > code. > > Now we introduce a repeater of some kind and it appears that the component > hierarchy is broken but it's not. So if C was a repeater and it had 4 > children then the hierarchy is still A to B to C but within C there is C to > C1, C to C2 and so on. > > Now, if we need to have a runtime variable amount of markup which is > variable, not in terms of the same markup repeated but completely different > markup based on some logic then we might define a Panel which handles the > variation. This is fine but what if the contents of the Panel is also > variable. In this case further Panels are needed until the variable > requirements are covered. > > Now the rub; although there are components, such as WebMarkupContainer which > can be used to group components, the use of any component which is not > 'transparent' must have the related wicket:id in some markup somewhere. > > So, lets take an example where we have a list of items which can be just > text or a link which has an optional image. It seems that I have to define > panels for :- > > - wrapper panel for the list > - a link with it's text > - a link with it's text and image > > So we have markup such as > > <wicket:panel> > <ul> > <li wicket:id="items"/> > </ul> > </wicket:panel> > > <wicket:panel> > <span wicket:id="link"> > <span wicket:id="text"/> > </span> > </wicket:panel> > > <wicket:panel> > <span wicket:id="link"> > <span wicket:id="text"/> > <img wicket:id="image"/> > </span> > </wicket:panel> > > Have I got this correct or have I gone astray somewhere? > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
