Hello, Maybe I'm not very "quick" today, but does that mean that a parent component will not hold a list of child components anymore ?
or just that it's the child component that will in charge of calling the right method on the parent to register itself ? On 1/16/06, Igor Vaynberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello all, > we, the core devel group, have been discussing and evaluating a possible > change we would like to make for the next release and we would like your > input. > > the idea is to remove the Component.add(Component child) method and link > components via a constructor instead: Component(Component parent, String id) > > this has a couple of advantages: > > * have access to markup the component is attached to in the constructor. > that means you can read attributes and initialize your component > appropriately. it also means we can eliminate the use of attribute modifiers > for non-dynamic attribute replacement. > > * we can fail super-early if there is a mismatch between component and > markup hierachies. currently we dont fail until render time, with this > change we can fail in the Component constructor - so before the component is > actually created. this will give you a line precise error in markup AND java > code. > > * getPage() and getPath() will work in the component's constructor. this is > really nice for ajax stuff. > > the big disadvantage of course is that we will break ALL existing code. it > is a simple change to fix though. a hybrid of this and add() will not work > because all links in the chain need to use the new constructor for it to > work. > > we would also provide Component.remove() and Component.readd() which > remove/readd component to its parent. so the link between parent and child > is now managed on the child's side instead of the parent's side. this, of > course, makes it impossible to move components between parents - is there a > usecase for this? > > please provide us with feedback/concerns so we have a better feel for > requirements out there. > > thanks, > -Igor > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Wicket-develop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-develop
