Automatic readonly descriptions

Hi everyone,

I sometimes want to render domain objects as read only, and sometimes as
editable entities.

I wrote description methods that allow editing, as per normal.

Then I wrote this class method:

readOnlyDescription
   ^ self description collect: [:description | description beReadonly].

which seems to work just dandy. I then render this in Seaside like so:

renderContentOn: html
   html render: (recipe class readOnlyDescription asComponentOn: recipe)

So: first, Magritte rocks me.

Second, is the above "idiomatic" Magritte? Are there better ways of
doing this?

frank
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Frank Shearar wrote:

Ah. Yes. "self description beReadonly" does the same thing!

frank
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>> Second, is the above "idiomatic" Magritte? Are there better ways of doing
>> this?
>
> Ah. Yes. "self description beReadonly" does the same thing!

That's correct, but you should copy the description beforehand:
<http://www.lukas-renggli.ch/smalltalk/magritte/faq>.

Lukas

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