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On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:37 AM, cristic83 <cristi.cior...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I have the following scenario to implement and I couldn't devise my own
> solution or find anywhere on the internet something that could help me, so I
> thought to give it a try on this mailing list. So here it goes the issue
> that I have:
>
> I want to add to a list view different components dynamically. E.g.,
> depending on the listItem model, I want to add an input field or a select
> box to my list view. And I also want to use the CompoundPropertyModel for
> these components added dynamically.
>
> What I did until now was something like this: in the populateItem method of
> the listView I set the model of the listItem to be a compound propertymodel
> like this:
>
> listItem.setModel(new
> CompoundPropertyModel(fieldDescriptorListItem.getModel()));
>
> Then, I added a Label to the listItem like this: listItem.add(new
> Label("name")); //the model has a name property -this works
>
> The model class has a type property which tells me what type of component I
> should display: input or select and a String property which is used to hold
> the value entered/selected by the user.
>
> Now, I want to add input or select fields dynamically based on the model
> type property. In order to do that, the only solution I could find was to
> create a panel for each type of field I wanted to add, e.g. TextFieldPanel
> or DropDownBoxPanel. Then I added that panel to the listView. This is not
> good for me, because this way I cannot bind the value entered by the user to
> the model using the compound property model, since I have an intermediary
> panel. Is there a way I could avoid wrapping the components in this
> intermediary panel? I found this link:
> https://cwiki.apache.org/WICKET/page-with-dynamic-components.html suggesting
> to use the wicket:container tag but I could not make it work.
>
> Do you have any ideas on how this can be accomplished?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Cristi
>
>
>
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