WebElement and WebComponent

[Nicolas Petton]

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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[Rob Rothwell-2]

#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 <petton.nicolas@...> 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 Mivsek]

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
> <petton.nicolas@... <mailto:petton.nicolas@...>> 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 Mivsek]

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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