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How are you implementing MyReusableComponentWithSubmitButton?
Chuck
On Jul 16, 2010, at 11:21 AM, Elim PDT wrote:
> I need to make several reusable components that handle custom bindings
> themselves to reduce duplicated code.
> I found the idea is ok as long as the reusable components not include
> submitbutton.
>
> Say I have a page called MyPage
>
> MyPage.html
> ...
> <webobject name=MyForm>
> <webobject name=MyReusableComponentWithSubmitButton></webobject>
> </webobject>
> ....
>
> MyPage.wod
> ...
> MyForm: WOForm {}
> MyReusableComponentWithSubmitButton { action = nextStep; infoDict =
> ctrlEO.infoDictionary; user = session.sessionUser; }
> ....
>
> MyPage.java
> .....
> public WOComponent nextStep() {
> ........
> if(dataCheckOK()) {
> return pageWithName("NextStep");
> }
> return null;
> }
>
> When click the submitbutton inside of MyReusableComponentWithSubmitButton, no
> matter dataCheckOK() returns what, it'll never bring me to the NextStep page.
>
> The reason is that the action is fired in the subcomponent request-response
> loop, even it triggers MyPage's method nextStep(), it will not alter the page
> level response generator!
>
> My question is: how to make the submitbutton inside of the subcomponent
> behavor as if it placed directly at page level?
>
> Thanks for any thoughts!
>
>
>
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