YES! - This looks exactly like what I need.. I wanna thank all for responding
so quickly - hopefully one day I'll ba able to help yet another newbie
tapestry user :-) ..
regards, Lars Borup Jensen
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 14:00:39 +0000 (UTC), Marcus Brito wrote
> <lars.borup <at> email.dk> writes:
>
> > I was wondering if it is somehow possible to add request parameters to a
> > PageLink? I've written a PopupLinkRenderer to be used with a PageLink but
> > since the PageLink component cannot take any parameters
>
> Tapestry is all about *not* figuring out URL's. You write your pages
> using object properties, and tapestry will assemble the correct
> URL's to reference them. The moment you start to think how to add a
> request parameter to a tapestry URL, you've just found out that
> something is wrong.
>
> Are you really calling WebRequest.getParameter() on your page? If
> yes, think about it again. Try to code it as an external page
> (implement IExternalPage), and read the necessary parameters on
> activateExternalPage(). Then you can just use an ExternalLink to
> reference your page.
>
> Something like this:
>
> public abstract class UserPage extends BasePage implements IExternalPage
> {
> public abstract String getUserName();
> public abstract void setUserName(String name);
>
> /**
> * Activates the user details page. The user name should be the first
> * external parameter.
> */
> public void activateExternalPage(Object[] params, IRequestCycle
> cycle) { setUserName((String) params[0]); } }
>
> And to link to the above page, you can use something like:
>
> <a jwcid="@ExternalLink" page="UserPage" parameters="ognl:currentUser">Edit
> Profile</a>
>
> The generated link will look somewhat like
> "http://myhost/app?service=external&page=UserPage&sp=Sjoe";, but you shouldn't
> care about it. All you care is that your external page needs one
> parameter, and that it's provided in the link.
>
> I hope that helped,
>
> -- Marcus Brito
>
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