Re: Blank From Parent WOComponent When Accessing From Embedded Components
Re: Blank From Parent WOComponent When Accessing From Embedded Components
- Subject: Re: Blank From Parent WOComponent When Accessing From Embedded Components
- From: Chuck Hill <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 09:44:40 -0700
1. parent() does not return a useful value in the constructor.
2. What you are doing is not the WO way. Pass theHotemItem to the children
in a binding. This works better and reduced the coupling between components.
Chuck
At 10:10 PM 23/04/2004 -0700, Hunter Hillegas wrote:
>I have several components that are inserted in another component via
>the 'Custom WebObject' menu option in WOBuilder.
>
>In the embedded components I have the following code in the constructor:
>
>theParentContainer = (RVHotelDetailMain)parent();
>
>When I bind strings in this format:
>
>theParentContainer.theHotelItem.hotelName
>
>It comes back with no value...
>
>If I do println on the variable from the parent component, it prints
>the value:
>
>DEBUG: Hotel: Bellagio
>
>So... What am I doing wrong? Can't I access the parent as I did?
>
>Thanks,
>Hunter
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