efficiency is the least of our worries here. what's more, the search for feedback interfaces on a form validate (which doesn't happen that often) is already in place in order to support the existing extension mechanism. while your suggested change would fix your particular problem, wicket needs to take a more general view. it should be possible to implement absolutely any kind of feedback mechanism for forms. not just label-oriented feedback. i think we should stick with what we've got since it's completely general and enhance it only if we have to in order
to implement a feedback label component.  make sense?

i agree that you shouldn't have to cast the IFeedback to a Component. in the past, this was not necessary... i no longer understand the code here though... what is this refactor, eelco? and what is a "collectingComponent" ?? in the past, any component could implement IFeedback and act as a "sink" for feedback information:

public interface IFeedback
{
   /**
* Called to add feedback messages from a component. If the component is a
    * container, messages will be added for all children of the container.
    *
    * @param component
    *            The component with associated feedback messages
    * @param recurse
* True if feedback messages should be added from children of the
    *            given component
    */
   public void addFeedbackMessages(Component component, boolean recurse);
}

this is a very powerful way to wire things up and i don't understand why this was changed.

Igor Vaynberg wrote:

I can kind of see what you are saying. The abstract validator would have to
search the page and find the Ifeedback for the formcomponent in error. But
what if you have two ifeedbacks for a component - the feedback panel and the
label? The search is also inefficient for something simple like this, I
don't think a link in a formcomponent to a labelcomponent is that big a
deal. In abstract validator you would also have to cast Ifeedback to a
Component in order to get the model, this isnt very safe, it would be nice
to have Icomponent and have Ifeedback extend Icomponent.

Igor


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonathan Locke
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 10:03 PM
To: wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Wicket-user] FieldLabel component


well, i don't know what's happened to the feedback interface stuff recently, but it was originally designed to be general enough to support what you're trying to do. seems like what you're writing is more or less a FormComponentFeedbackLabel. and the link is simply implementing IFeedback (or it used to be... i'm not sure what's changed... it looks unfamiliar now). the form code then finds the associated feedback elements for each form component.

Igor Vaynberg wrote:

I've seen the error border, it doesn't do what I want - in our app a red asterisk indicates a required field and field labels
with errors turn red.
What I am looking for is a way to link the label to the
component not
the other way around. My primary interest was the validator
stuff, the
decoration of the label was a bonus.

-Igor




-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Jonathan
Locke
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 8:14 PM
To: wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Wicket-user] FieldLabel component


if you just want to show an error indicator like a red
asterisk, see
FormComponentFeedbackBorder.
i personally don't like the idea of changing field label
contents on
users.  so instead, i've emphasized FeedbackPanel and IFeedback.
however, you should be able to implement what you're talking about though by implementing IFeedback on a subclass of Label.

Igor Vaynberg wrote:

Hi Guys,

Ive been working on forms a lot lately, and what ive been
missing from
tapestry is a fieldlabel component. Basically a fieldlabel
is a label
that is linked to a form component.

This allows to do cool things like:

1) FieldLabel can change its apperance based on the form component

TextField tf=new RequiredTextField(...) FieldLabel lb=new FieldLabel("label1","First Name", tf) {
        public void initialize() {
                add(new AttributeModifier("style", true, new
Model("color:red;")) {
                        public boolean isEnabled()
                        {
                                return !getFieldComponent().isValid();
                        }
                });
        }
};

This will create a field label that will turn red when the
linked form
component has an error.

Another good use is to prepand an asterisk to the
fieldlabel's label if
the linked form component has a requiredvalidator added.

2) FieldLabel's label can participate in validator messages

With this patch it is possible to create generic error
messages of form :
"'${label}' is required" or "'${label}' contains an invalid
email address"
I am looking for feedback and ideas on how to make this
better before I
submit this as a patch.

Thank you!
Igor


-------------------------------------------------------------
----------
-

Index: wicket/markup/html/form/FormComponent.java
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/wicket/wicket/src/java/wicket/markup/html/form/FormC
omponent.j
ava,v
retrieving revision 1.43
diff -u -r1.43 FormComponent.java
--- wicket/markup/html/form/FormComponent.java 28 Jul
2005 11:56:51 -0000     1.43
+++ wicket/markup/html/form/FormComponent.java 30 Jul
2005 02:32:19 -0000
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
import wicket.model.IModel;
import wicket.util.lang.Classes;
import wicket.util.string.StringList;
+import wicket.version.undo.Change;

/**
* An html form component knows how to validate itself. Validators that @@ -71,6 +72,9 @@
        /** The validator or validator list for this component. */
        private IValidator validator = IValidator.NULL;

+       /** The field label for this component */
+       private FieldLabel fieldLabel;
+       
        /**
         * Typesafe interface to code that is called when
visiting a form component
         *
@@ -575,4 +579,24 @@
        {
                validator.validate(this);
        }
+       
+       protected FormComponent setFieldLabel(FieldLabel label) {
+               if (fieldLabel!=null) {
+                       
+                       addStateChange(new Change() {
+                               private final FieldLabel
+oldFieldLabel=FormComponent.this.fieldLabel;
+
+                               public void undo()
+                               {
+                                       
FormComponent.this.fieldLabel=oldFieldLabel;
+                               }
+                       });
+               }
+               this.fieldLabel=label;
+               return this;
+       }
+       
+       public FieldLabel getFieldLabel() {
+               return fieldLabel;
+       }
}
\ No newline at end of file
Index: wicket/markup/html/form/validation/AbstractValidator.java
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/wicket/wicket/src/java/wicket/markup/html/form/valid
ation/Abst
ractValidator.java,v
retrieving revision 1.31
diff -u -r1.31 AbstractValidator.java
---
wicket/markup/html/form/validation/AbstractValidator.java       
21 Jul 2005 10:46:36 -0000      1.31
+++
wicket/markup/html/form/validation/AbstractValidator.java       
30 Jul 2005 02:32:19 -0000
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
import java.util.Map;

import wicket.Localizer;
+import wicket.markup.html.form.FieldLabel;
import wicket.markup.html.form.FormComponent;
import wicket.model.IModel;
import wicket.model.Model;
@@ -139,6 +140,21 @@
                final Map resourceModel = new HashMap(4);
                resourceModel.put("input", formComponent.getInput());
                resourceModel.put("name", formComponent.getId());
+               
+               // try to retrieve the label from field label,
default to empty string
+               String labelValue = "";
+               FieldLabel label = formComponent.getFieldLabel();
+               if (label != null)
+               {
+                       Object modelObject = label.getModelObject();
+                       if (modelObject != null)
+                       {
+                               labelValue = modelObject.toString();
+                       }
+               }
+               resourceModel.put("label", labelValue);
+               
+               
                return resourceModel;
        }
}
Index: wicket/markup/html/form/FieldLabel.java
===================================================================
RCS file: wicket/markup/html/form/FieldLabel.java
diff -N wicket/markup/html/form/FieldLabel.java
--- /dev/null   1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
+++ wicket/markup/html/form/FieldLabel.java 1 Jan 1970
00:00:00 -0000
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+package wicket.markup.html.form;
+
+import wicket.AttributeModifier;
+import wicket.Component;
+import wicket.markup.html.WebMarkupContainer;
+import wicket.markup.html.basic.Label; import +wicket.markup.html.panel.Panel; import
wicket.model.IModel; import
+wicket.model.Model; import wicket.model.PropertyModel;
+
+public class FieldLabel extends Label {
+       protected FormComponent fc;
+       
+       public FieldLabel(String id, FormComponent formComponent)
+       {
+               super(id);
+               internalInitialize(formComponent);
+       }
+
+       public FieldLabel(String id, String string,
FormComponent formComponent)
+       {
+               super(id, string);
+               internalInitialize(formComponent);
+       }
+       
+       public FieldLabel(String id, IModel model,
FormComponent formComponent)
+       {
+               super(id, model);
+               internalInitialize(formComponent);
+       }
+
+       private void internalInitialize(FormComponent formComponent)
+       {
+               if (fc==null) throw new
IllegalArgumentException("formComponent cannot be null");
+               this.fc=fc;
+
+               fc.setFieldLabel(this);
+               setRenderBodyOnly(true);
+               
+               initialize();
+       }
+
+       public final FormComponent getFormComponent() {
+               return fc;
+       }
+       
+       public void initialize() {
+               
+       }
+       
+
+       
+}


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