I think org.apache.wicket.markup.html.panel.FeedbackPanel.setSortingComparator(Comparator<FeedbackMessage>) is for that
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Christian Huber <hub...@butterbrot.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if there is a way to have feedback messages show up in > certain order. Like, when you have multiple messages for the user you might > want to have the most general one (e.g. success/failure) at the top and > other detail messages shown below. > > From what I have seen so far it looks like this is not possible (at least > not with 1.4.18) > > As a default messages are rendered in the order they have been provided, so > usually you can just collect the messages you want to display and then add > them at the end of your request in the desired order. But there can be > circumstances where this is not feasible or at least pretty anoying. > > I have seen that a FeedbackPanel can be given a comparator to sort the > messages but the feedback messages only provide a level field to distinguish > between info, debug, errror etc. To impose a proper priority order one would > need a metric orthogonal to message levels preferrably represented by a > primitive (double would give the biggest freedom here). > > The Component class could be extended to provide additional methods like > Component#info(String message, double priority) and messages which do not > have a priority get assigned a default value specified in the Application > class (could be 0 in the standard implementation). > > Would this be a useful/sensible addition? Is such a thing planned for future > releases or maybe already available and I just did not see it? > > One workaround/hack to implement this with the current version could be to > prefix all messages with a numeric string and use a Comparator to parse this > string and sort accordingly. > > Cheers, Chris > > -- > The Sanity Resort <http://sanityresort.blogspot.com/> > -- Martin Grigorov jWeekend Training, Consulting, Development http://jWeekend.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org
