I'm getting started building an application using Wicket. I have a pretty solid understanding of developing an app using Struts, but I've never approached an app from this 'component' perspective before. I'm just going to jump right in:
I have this Model: Customer has a Set of Addresses I have an EditCustomerPage. On this page I provide a form for changing the properties on the customer. I also provide a form for an Address. Last, I provide a list of Addresses currently belonging to the customer. This page is constructed one of two ways. First, you can construct with a Customer object, indicating which customer you wish to edit. Second, you can construct with a Customer object and an Address object, indicating that you wish to edit a specific Customer and Address. Upon your first arrival on this page, you will see an empty Address form. For each Address listed I provide an Edit link. This link sets the response page to a new EditCustomerPage, supplying a Customer and an Address on construction. This leads me to a question: When staying on the same page, but changing some of the underlying components (e.g., replacing a form backed by an empty Address to a form backed by an existing Address), should I construct a new Page or should I manipulate the current Page (e.g., by changing the Model on the AddressForm)? Constructing the new Page is easy. But, is that the intent of the framework? I do the same thing once an Address is updated or deleted. I set the response to a new EditCustomerPage. This causes my AddressList to pull the fresh list of addresses from the Customer. If I didn't do this, I'd need to somehow force the existing AddressList on the current page to reflect the changed Address objects. If anyone has an opinion on the subject, I'd love to hear it. As this is all new territory to me, I have some learning to do... Regards, Doug ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Wicket-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user
