Your repeating view is not dynamic. You should take a look at
refreshingview or listview. If you still want to use repeatingview
override onbeforerender and /modify/ the component structure.
Martijn
On 8/15/08, Daryl Handley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Newbie wicket user, but liking it so far :) Using 1.3.4
>
> I've been trying to get a prototype going which will display a repeating
> view and regularly update a list of data via Ajax.
>
> My constructor for my component (which extends Panel) looks like this.
> ======================================
> public UpcomingRacesComponent(String id) {
> super(id);
>
> RepeatingView upcomingRacesRepeatingView = new
> RepeatingView("upcomingRacesRepeater");
> this.add(upcomingRacesRepeatingView);
>
> String[] races = getRandomlyOrderedRaces();
> int index = 0;
> for (String race : races) {
> WebMarkupContainer item = new
> WebMarkupContainer(upcomingRacesRepeatingView
> .newChildId());
> upcomingRacesRepeatingView.add(item);
> item.add(new Label("raceLabel", race));
> index++;
> }
> }
> ======================================
>
>
> the html for this looks like
> ======================================
> <wicket:panel>
> <div wicket:id="upcomingRacesRepeater">
> <div wicket:id="raceLabel">
> [ race ]
> </div>
> </div>
> </wicket:panel>
> ======================================
>
>
> the code for the page that holds the component is
> ======================================
> public IndexPage() {
> final UpcomingRacesComponent upcomingRacesComponent =
> new UpcomingRacesComponent("upcomingRacesComponent");
> upcomingRacesComponent.setOutputMarkupId(true);
> upcomingRacesComponent.add(new
> AjaxSelfUpdatingTimerBehavior(Duration.seconds(3)));
> this.add(upcomingRacesComponent);
> }
> ======================================
>
>
> and the html within the page
> ======================================
> <div wicket:id="upcomingRacesComponent" class="upcomingRaces">
> [ Upcoming races component ]
> </div>
> ======================================
>
>
> Through the Wicket debugger, I can see the request going to the server, but
> the same data is always returned (i'm randomizing the order for testing, so
> it should be changing). I also tried wrapping the component withing a
> WebMarkupContainer (as described in the Wicket In Action). but that didn't
> work either. It's pretty obvious why it isn't working since the constructor
> is only being called once and hence getRandomlyOrderedRaces is only called
> once, but I've been trying various different things and I can't seem to find
> where to hook in getRandomlyOrderedRaces so that it is called upon each of
> the AJAX calls.
>
> Any help appreciated, this is probably a really dumb question
>
> Thanks
> Daryl
>
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