I am not sure if this is related, but I noticed that occasionally when
I click on a link and expect page FOO to render I actually get
redirected to a completely unrelated page BAR. This happens when I
have a different tab that has page BAR open.

I am using Wicket 1.4.17.

Regards,

Alec

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Igor Vaynberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Pointbreak
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012, at 09:49, Igor Vaynberg wrote:
>>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Pointbreak
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > On Thu, Mar 22, 2012, at 08:23, Igor Vaynberg wrote:
>>> >> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Pointbreak
>>> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >> > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012, at 20:00, Igor Vaynberg wrote:
>>> >> >> i think there is some confusion here. wicket 1.4 had page ids. it also
>>> >> >> had page versions. in 1.5 we simply merged page id and page version
>>> >> >> into the same variable - page id. this made things much simpler and
>>> >> >> also allowed some usecases that were not possible when the two were
>>> >> >> separate.
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> you dont have to go very far to come up with an example where page id 
>>> >> >> is
>>> >> >> useful.
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> 1. suppose you have a page with panel A that has a link
>>> >> >> 2. user hits a link on the page that swaps panel A for panel B
>>> >> >> 3. user presses the back button
>>> >> >> 4. user clicks the link on panel A
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> now if you turn off page id and therefore page versioning it goes like
>>> >> >> this
>>> >> >> 1. wicket creates page and assigns it id 1
>>> >> >> 2. page id 1 now has panel B instead of panel A
>>> >> >> 3. page with id 1 is rerendered
>>> >> >> 4. wicket loads page with id 1. user gets an error because it cannot
>>> >> >> find the link component the user clicked since the page has panel B
>>> >> >> instead of panel A
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >
>>> >> > This is imho not what happens with NoVersionMount. What happens is:
>>> >> >
>>> >> > 1. wicket creates page and assigns it id 1
>>> >> > 2. page id 1 now has panel B instead of panel A
>>> >> > 3. wicket creates new page and assigns it id 2; depending on how the
>>> >> > page keeps state either a page with panel A and link, or a page with
>>> >> > Panel B is created.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Hence, there is nothing broken in this scenario.
>>> >>
>>> >> we were talking about something else here. the NoVersionMount has the
>>> >> problem of losing ajax state when the user refreshes the page.
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > I believe the OP's question was for use-cases were Wickets default
>>> > behaviour would be preferred over using a strategy like NoVersionMount.
>>> > But if I understood that incorrectly, it's now my question  ;-).
>>> > Imho
>>> > the natural behaviour a user expects for a page-refresh is a fresh
>>> > up-to-date version of the page. This is exactly what NoVersionMount does
>>> > as it forces a newly constructed page for a refresh. For OP's (Chris
>>> > Colman's) shopping card example this seems perfectly reasonable
>>> > behaviour.
>>>
>>> it is undesirable in applications that perform navigation using ajax
>>> panel swapping. in this case a page-refresh will essentially take you
>>> back to the homepage.
>>
>> Fair enough
>>
>>> > I have never had to build a website were it was a problem when the ajax
>>> > state was lost on page refresh.
>>>
>>> but you also have not built every wicket application...
>>
>> Obviously... to be honest, for your use case (one page ajax application
>> that performs navigation by swapping page components) I have always
>> chosen other frameworks, that are (imho) better suited for these
>> usecases.
>>
>>> > When wicket shows older versions of a
>>> > page (e.g. due to back button, bookmarking older versions, etc.), you
>>> > have to be really careful with how a page version and a model interact
>>> > to not run into trouble. You also loose bookmarkability of such pages
>>> > (in the web-browser sense, not in the wicket-sense).
>>>
>>> you also lose it if the user bookmarks the page after they click
>>> something on a bookmarkable page... so stripping the version off
>>> initial entry is not fixing the problem entirely.
>>
>> I don't see this. They always get an up-to-date version of the page they
>> bookmarked, as it is always freshly constructed.
>
> suppose i go to /foo
> i think click some twistie link that expands some info section, and in
> process redirects me to /foo?1
> at this point i think this page is useful and i bookmark it
> so i still have the version number in my bookmark.
>
> in fact, the only way i dont have a version number is if i bookmark
> without clicking anything on the page. i dont know how often that
> happens compared to bookmarking after at least one click on something
> in the page
>
> -igor
>
>> Ok, I can see the usecase for this page-id/version functionality.
>> However, I still think it would be useful if Wicket also catered for the
>> other usecase, where page navigation is handled by just having multiple
>> pages. Is there a serious flaw in the NoVersionMount strategy for these
>> usecases, and if not, wouldn't something like that be a valuable
>> contribution to Wicket? (In which case I think it should not be turned
>> on by a MountMapper implementation, but by a page property).
>>
>> I have always considered Wicket's main strength the flexibility to have
>> ajax-like functionality in a page based component framework. It's a
>> really nice thing to be able to have support for good looking and
>> bookmarkable url's in such applications. And it also makes page state
>> management easier for these pages (i.e. when a LDM and the component
>> hierarchy on a page have a relation).
>>
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