Hi,Actually, Wicket already works like this. It does *NOT* require the <wicket:extend>, and if it's not present it just renders the contents of the <wicket:child>. (Just tested this with beta4).
Furthermore, your patch works exactly the same as far for multilple child sections (as far as I can tell, or otherwise it should for backwards compatibility), and does precisely what both you and Chris want.
Regards, Sebastiaan Stefan Fußenegger wrote:
I think it would be a nice feature to define defaults and overrides this way. However, this wouldn't be backwards compatible anymore as the contents are currently ignored. (Ok, you are currently forced to extend them, so you probably wouldn't see the markup from such sections in *old* applications.) My vote on this: - I would love to have multiple sections. - I would appreciate default markup for extendible sections. Kind regards, -- stefan PS: I'm keeping my fingers crossed for RC1! Go, Wicket, go! :) Chris Colman wrote:That is what I'd suggest as well, since it involves the least amountofchange. As an added bonus, if no id's are added and 2 <wicket:child> sections are used, it could throw an exception (which it currentlydoesnot do, it just silently ignores the second <wicket:child>).That would be magic! While we're at this epic moment after spending days thrashing this out could we spend just 3 extra minutes to investigate implementing standard Java method like behavior for this feature? Ie., In the case that no override <extend> is provided in a derived page, simply use the markup in the <child> tag in the base page. Then it would work like methods work in Java - and it's probably how most Java developers would naturally expect an OO framework like wicket to work anyway. Intuitively it seems like an easy to implement option in the framework: the <child>/<extend> feature is already merging code from the base page anyway - if there is no override <extend> tag in a derived page then it simply pulls the markup from the base page's <child> tag.Regards, Sebastiaan--------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]----- ------- Stefan Fußenegger http://talk-on-tech.blogspot.com // looking for a nicer domain ;)
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