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Nicolas Petton

WebElement and WebComponent

For now, WebComponent is an empty subclass of WebElement.
To differentiate them, we should probably add some useful methods to
WebComponent.

My idea is to override WebComponent class>>initialize to call a #build
method, then add an empty #build method. That way the trick (often used)

printHTMLPageOn: aStream forSession: aSession

self build.
^super printHTMLPageOn: aStream forSession: aSession.

Won't be necessary.

What do you think ?

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Rob Rothwell

Re: WebElement and WebComponent

#build makes sense to me, as in "build the component out of it's constituent WebElements."

Is that what you were thinking?

Rob

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Nicolas Petton <[hidden email]> wrote:

For now, WebComponent is an empty subclass of WebElement.
To differentiate them, we should probably add some useful methods to
WebComponent.

My idea is to override WebComponent class>>initialize to call a #build
method, then add an empty #build method. That way the trick (often used)

printHTMLPageOn: aStream forSession: aSession

self build.
^super printHTMLPageOn: aStream forSession: aSession.

Won't be necessary.

What do you think ?

Nico
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Janko Mivšek

Re: WebElement and WebComponent

Rob Rothwell wrote:
> #build makes sense to me, as in "build the component out of it's
> constituent WebElements."
>
> Is that what you were thinking?

That's an intentions of #build method, yes. It is meant to build an
object tree of a component, just as #viewMain do for a whole page.

Component can be namely built once only and then is "cached", or every
time a page with that component is shown, or when Ajax refresh request
comes. All three ways use the same #build method.

Janko

>
> Rob
>
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Nicolas Petton
> <[hidden email] <mailto:[hidden email]>> wrote:
>
> For now, WebComponent is an empty subclass of WebElement.
> To differentiate them, we should probably add some useful methods to
> WebComponent.
>
> My idea is to override WebComponent class>>initialize to call a #build
> method, then add an empty #build method. That way the trick (often used)
>
> printHTMLPageOn: aStream forSession: aSession
>
> self build.
> ^super printHTMLPageOn: aStream forSession: aSession.
>
> Won't be necessary.
>
> What do you think ?
>
> Nico
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Janko Mivšek

Re: WebElement and WebComponent

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Nicolas Petton wrote:
> For now, WebComponent is an empty subclass of WebElement.
> To differentiate them, we should probably add some useful methods to
> WebComponent.
>
> My idea is to override WebComponent class>>initialize to call a #build
> method, then add an empty #build method. That way the trick (often used)

Agree. Also comment all that methods well to help implementers better
extending them. Also don't forget on Ajax registration for the #build
method in initialize.

Janko

>
> printHTMLPageOn: aStream forSession: aSession
>
> self build.
> ^super printHTMLPageOn: aStream forSession: aSession.
>
> Won't be necessary.
>
> What do you think ?
>
> Nico
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