Oh yes; 5.1.0.0 is just an alpha release (that hasn't even been fully
voted up yet).  I hope to address glaring bugs in it in a follow on
release in a couple of weeks, and progress quickly to a final release.
Thanks for checking it out so early!

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:13 AM, alex_yt_cheung
<alex_yt_che...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Any chance the PageTester's contributeApplicationDefaults() issues (...
> should use FactoryDefaults instead of ApplicationDefaults...) will be fixed
> in 5.1.0.0-GA?
>
> thanks
> - alex
>
>
> Howard Lewis Ship wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the input; I definitely changed a few things in PageTester
>> to simplify the behavior and make it use more of the same code
>> pathways that a deployed application would. I'll see about fixing
>> these.
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:39 PM, alex_yt_cheung
>> <alex_yt_che...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes baby, 5.1.0.0, fresh off the press and already running.. mostly:-)
>>>
>>> Just want to share my experience and ask how best to resolve some issues.
>>>
>>> * Some refactoring for new interface adaptations: LinkFactory, use of
>>> ValueEncoder instead of PrimaryKeyEncoder...etc.  nothing too serious to
>>> get
>>> the code compile and running.
>>
>> LinkFactory is internal and 5.1 has and will have more ways to
>> accomplish the same goals that used to involve overriding LinkFactory.
>>
>> PKE: this change is quasi-backwards compatible; you may find that you
>> can keep your PKE but have to use a different constructor of
>> DefaultPrimaryKeyEncoder (to pass up the type of the key).
>>
>>> * Tapestry module class is restricted to builders, contributions,
>>> decorators
>>> and bind methods.  If you have convenient methods inside the module
>>> classes,
>>> you will need to do some refactoring.
>>
>> You can use private methods for these convieniences.
>>
>>> * The PageTester don't support parameters with space, comma, %, or +
>>> anymore.  Ended up reducing the complexity of the strings to allow the
>>> tests
>>> to run.  It will be great I can go back to having more complex strings as
>>> parameters to my test pages.
>>
>> Please add a detailed issue to JIRA for this.
>>
>>> * Not sure if it is the PageTester or the rendering sequence, but I
>>> notice a
>>> difference in behavior on exception handling when using the PageTester.
>>> The
>>> call to renderPage() seems to have processed the exception, where
>>> previously
>>> the exception was thrown to the caller.  The announing part is that the
>>> document returned only tells you the exception, in my case, a
>>> ClassNotFoundException was thrown while loading the xxxPage, but I can't
>>> tell which class was really not found.
>>> * There is a PageTesterModule that contributes to the PageTester
>>> environment.  My issue is with contributeApplicationDefaults(), our
>>> module
>>> also issue an configuration.add(SymbolConstants.FORCE_ABSOLUTE_URIS,
>>> "true").  It turned out that an IllegalArgumentException is thrown when
>>> tapestry sees two add() calls for the same key.  I use
>>> configuration.override() to fix my test, but that break my dev/prod
>>> environment because override() throws IllegalArgumentException when
>>> trying
>>> to override() an non-existent key.  The IllegalArgumentException
>>> exception
>>> is thrown from MappedConfiguration.apply():line 42.  That requires
>>> knowing
>>> if the key exists prior to calling override.  Maybe a new API to peek
>>> into
>>> the config for existence check will do nicely.
>>
>> Actualy, PageTester should override FactoryDefaults, rather than
>> provide ApplicationDefaults. This can be fixed.
>>
>>>
>>> I have some work-arounds, but will be grateful for patches or better
>>> solutions.
>>>
>>> thanks in advance.
>>> - alex
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>>
>>
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>>
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