This is a good reference. https://cwiki.apache.org/WICKET/working-with-wicket-models.html
Scott On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:50 AM, mlabs <mlabs....@gmail.com> wrote: > 1. first I'd like to ask if there is any good reading material out there > regarding models. In particular I want to figure out all the nifty things > you can do with them via nesting/chaining etc. I've read Wicket in Action .. > but it seemed to gloss over the advanced stuff you can do with them .. and > I've read the docs.. and just from reading those, well it's not obvious what > you can do with them and why... > > 2. I have a specific problem and I'm looking for some hints. I have a foo > bean that I get from a DAO layer. The foo bean has the usual name, > description String properties. It also has an array of 'widget' beans called > 'widgets'. The widget beans also have a name and description properties ans > well as various others. > So I have a form and I map the foo.name, foo.description properties to > TextField components using a compundpropertymodel. The 3rd component is a > ListView, which I want to use to display the widgets. > First problem I run into is that the ListView model needs to be a List, not > an array of Widget. So the compoundpropertymodel barfs at this point. I > don't have any control over the beans and I'd rather not wrap them .. I want > to bind the components directly to the bean properties. > > I'm wondering if there is a neat trick I can use involving model nesting or > something like that to solve this problem? Or maybe there is a way to tell > the CPM that for property 'widgets' .. do something different.. like > array-to-List conversion .. > > I'm a wicket newbie and the model-penny hasn't quite dropped yet.. so any > help would be most appreciated. > TIA > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-wicket.1842946.n4.nabble.com/model-help-tp3415833p3415833.html > Sent from the Users forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org
