So imagine a scenario that you have one entity lets say people. You will
provide a table of all people. You can edit people and add new people.
Now you want to use jPDL and natural conversations (mix jPDL and pages.xml
because jPDL does not offer you to specify conversation name).
(note: I used to use deprecated method annotation for begin(id="foo.id"))
You start a conversation whenever you click on a person from table or a new
person button. You also want to join conversations with the same id.
Scenerio 1: (problem join)
you will click on person and will start conversation. In pages.xml is defined
| <conversation name="personHome"
| parameter-name="personName"
| parameter-value="person-#{empty person.id ? 'new' :
person.username}"/>
|
| <page view-id="/private/search/people/personHomeView.xhtml"
| conversation="personHome"
| conversation-required="true"
| no-conversation-view-id="/private/home.xhtml"/>
|
so your natural conversation has id==person.id
Problem 1. raises when you want to join conversations with the same name (same
person). Because the behavior is: start conversation, redirect to the page
personHomeView.xhtml and name the conversation id==person.id as defined in
pages.xml. The thing is that
<conversation name="personHome"
| parameter-name="id"
| parameter-value="#{empty person.id ? 'new' :
person.id}"/>
should have parameter join. You cannot use annotation (join) on your selection
method in session bean. Because at that time the new conversation has id=random
and named id is made later from pages.xml.
The main point is that I can use join at the time when I do not know which
object is selected! so conversation has id=random which is renamed later in
pages.xml, but if such a conversation id already exists it throws an error
instead of joining.
Note: this does not help because you do not know person instance at the time
(otherwise as SeamBay)
<h:commandButton ..action="select(person)" >
| <s:conversationName value=".."/>
| ..
|
(SeamBay does not show this, it has passing id via get, but it seems like very
un-maintainable and hacked solution)
Scenerio 2: (problem conversation rename)
Problem 2: you want to create a new person and then redirect to person home
(jPDL).
<page view-id="/private/search/people/personHomeEdit.xhtml"
| conversation="personHome"
| conversation-required="true"
| no-conversation-view-id="/private/home.xhtml"/>
So you click on the button and call method that creates new object Person and
starts new conversation. Then after method is done it redirects you from table
to personHomeEdit and conversation is named id=new(note conversation id
definition). Ok you fill out the form and saves the person. Then you are
redirected to a page personHome. BUT now the Person instance has id now!!! so
definition of conversationName evaluates it as conversation id=person.id and
not id=new.
personHome now expects conversation name id=person.id but such a conversation
does not exist! so I am redirect to a default page.
(Now I can manually check it in my method and in case of join redirect, but it
is hack too and seam should have something better)
What about make an clear example in your documnetation pages doing exactly
this: one entity and two pages (Home and HomeEdit). You will use natural
conversations (No hack as in SeamBay or maybe I did not look at it carefully).
You can edit table entry(redirect to Home and then to HomeEdit and then
HomeEdit) and create new (redirect to HomeEdit then to Home)
Thanks for answer
Tomas ;D
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