RE: Additional change to DefaultViewHandler proposal...

MessageHi James,

Hey, this is great. I'd love to hear more about what you're doing (how
you're using Barracuda), if you can share it with us!

Christian

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  -----Original Message-----
  From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of James Carnegie
  Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 4:34 AM
  To: [email protected]
  Subject: RE: [Barracuda] Additional change to DefaultViewHandler
proposal...


  Hi Jake,

  We are using the Barracuda Event Model for something unrelated to HTTP and
HTML. I don't suppose dependency of the DOM related stuff on XMLC would be a
problem for us since we don't even use those classes. Just thought everyone
might be interested to know that we are using Barracuda in a different
context.

  regards,
  James.

    -----Original Message-----
    From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jacob Kjome
    Sent: 06 March 2003 07:09
    To: [email protected]
    Subject: [Barracuda] Additional change to DefaultViewHandler proposal...



    Hi everyone,

    I was wondering about whether we might want to add some functionality to
DefaultViewHandler as long as we are modifying things there.   What I would
like to see is a way to set OutputOptions and for the code in
handleViewEvent() to pick that up when using the DOMWriter to write out the
response.

    Currently, there is....
    public DOMWriter getDOMWriter()

    I propose adding...
    public OutputOptions getOutputOptions()

    Then, the code in handleViewEvent() which does this...
    this.getDOMWriter().write(doc, vec.getResponse());

    would, instead, do this...
    this.getDOMWriter().write(doc, vec.getResponse(),
this.getOutputOptions());


    This allows us to avoid overriding handleViewEvent(), which has a number
of intricacies, simply to add custom OutputOptions.

    This would be immensely helpful in the context of Diez' Pages model and
other areas, I'm sure.   It shouldn't cause any grief because no ones app
would break with this change since it only adds a new method which is really
only used internally by the implemented handleViewEvent().  And it doesn't
take away anything.


    Any objections to something like this?  One might argue that this
creates a dependency upon XMLC.  Barracuda is supposed to allow the use of
any DOM tree, not just XMLC.  However, in practice, I don't know if anyone
out there uses Barracuda without using XMLC.  Plus, I think there actually
are a few places in the code that already create dependencies on XMLC.  So,
I'm not sure this is a big problem.  Thoughts?

    Jake


    At 02:58 PM 3/5/2003 -0500, you wrote:

      Can people do a quick check on their Barracuda related code for
me...I'd
      like you to search for 'preCompRender' and 'postCompRender'.

      Right now the signatures look like this:

          public void preCompRender(BComponent root, ViewContext vc) {
          public void postCompRender(BComponent root, ViewContext vc) {

      I'd like to change it to be

          public void preCompRender(BComponent root) {
          public void postCompRender(BComponent root) {

      This would require everyone to do a search and replace on the code
above (if
      they have it implemented...I'm guessing most people don't). Then, if
those
      methods were using a reference to ViewContext vc, you'd have to call
the
      (soon to be added) getViewContext() method.

      Would this be a hardship for anyone?

      Let me know as soon as possible...

      Thanks,
      Christian

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