Clint, Thanks for this idea. Let me give a try to it. Pondering whether the Tailer would introduce any memory leaks if we navigate to a different page.
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Clint Checketts <checke...@gmail.com>wrote: > I'd need to look at Tailer to see how it operates. But here is how I'd try > it (it is quick and I don't like the markup, but we'll optimize it later: > > Create a panel that looks like so (we'll call it LoggingPanel): > > <wicket:panel> > <div wicket:id="logData">log contents</div> > <div wicket:id="nextLog">next log call</div> > </wicket:panel> > > Add a self updating timer behavior so the panel check the Tailer for > output, if there is data, then update the logData label with it, make the > nextLog component be another LoggingPanel with a SelfUpdatingTImerBehavior, > and stop the timerbehavior on the current panel. > > Drawbacks are: the divs keep getting nested, so the markup isn't the most > beautiful, so setRenderBodyOnly(true) might make it nicer. > > -Clint > > On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 9:27 PM, James <james.eliye...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thanks Steve. I'll look into the commons-io "Tailer". > > But any idea on how to use this with wicket? > > > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Steve Swinsburg < > > steve.swinsb...@gmail.com > > > wrote: > > > > > I've done something similar to this using the Tailer class from > > commons-io. > > > > > > cheers, > > > Steve > > > > > > > > > On 21/11/2011, at 12:59 PM, James wrote: > > > > > > > Dear wicket community, > > > > > > > > In a project that I'm working on, I need to build a "live log viewer" > > or > > > > "dynamic log viewer" or "refreshable log viewer". > > > > Much like how hudson/jenkins displays the console output. > > > > > > > > The idea is to dynamically display the new data added to a log file > > along > > > > with the existing content. > > > > > > > > How to go about doing this? Please throw some light on this. > > > > > > > > I searched about this in the web, mailing lists but couldn't find > what > > I > > > > was looking for, so I'm posting it here. > > > > If this is asked elsewhere, kindly re-direct me to the respective > > > resource. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Thanks & Regards, > > > > James > > > > A happy Wicket user > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Thanks & Regards, > > James > > > -- Thanks & Regards, James
