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Greg Brown commented on PIVOT-514:
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It's not a bad idea - Flex has a similar concept. ContentProperty is probably a
little too specific to the Window class, but DefaultProperty (which is what
Flex calls it) might work.
> create an annotation to specify the default "child" property of a component
> used by the serializer to attach children objects
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> Key: PIVOT-514
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-514
> Project: Pivot
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: wtk
> Reporter: Appddevvv
> Priority: Minor
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> Add an annotation called @ContentProperty that specifies the default property
> to attach children to in the serializer. I found that I was making mistakes
> when creating WTKX that this annotation and a default "child attachment"
> approach could help. Benefits include:
> a) The client does not need to know which property to attach the children to.
> b) To add objects to a collection the parent object does not need to extend
> from sequence. The sequence can be contained in the object instead of
> implementing the interface. Containment can be another approach to getting
> content into the parent objects versus inheritance.
> c) You can change some of the properties in the class where attachment occurs
> and your WTKX files do not have to change.
> The default mechanism would be similar to what exists today. It's a simple
> extension of it. The "attach child" search would be:
> a) If the content property is specified, use that property to add the child
> to. If the content property is a collection, add it to the collection.
> b) If the content property is not specified,
> b.1) If the parent object is a collection (this is how it is handled today)
> then add it to the collection using the List.add(Object) method.
> b.2) Add it to the property specified in the XML. This is also how it is
> handled today.
> I wrote this for a small modeled framework similar to pivot and could work up
> a couple of patches for this. This is very similar to how wpf handles child
> content specifications in XML. Thoughts?
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