Re: How to preserve all the states of stateful components?
Re: How to preserve all the states of stateful components?
- Subject: Re: How to preserve all the states of stateful components?
- From: Miguel Arroz <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:19:09 +0100
Hi!
No. The problem is not the browser making the request or fetching
from its cache. The problem is that the pager component (and
controller) internal structures are always in the last state. ie,
imagine the controller has an array of the elements that are visible
on the current page. When the user goes back, the pager component is
the same. The problem is that all the data remains the same, so you
will still be working with the data from the latest state, and not
from the state you should be seeing. Disabling the cache may PREVENT
the problem from happening (didn't test it), by simply returning the
same page you were seeing. If you saw page 1, than 4, than 5, than 6,
with the caching disbaled, when you clicked back, I guess you would
always see the page 6. As I said, that would prevent the problem, but
not solve it (people expect the "back" button works as expected).
Yours
Miguel Arroz
On 2007/06/29, at 09:14, Paul Lynch wrote:
On 28 Jun 2007, at 22:31, Miguel Arroz wrote:
The pager kicks ass, as it handles huge amount of data, using
the objectInRange stuff in Wonder to limit the resources usage.
Everything works like a charm. Except... when the user clicks the
evil back button.
There, two things happen: first, the objects shown on the screen
are not the objects where actions will apply if you choose an
action on a displayed object (the same problem descibred here -
<http://groups.google.com/group/wotips/browse_thread/thread/
7fd37a82e5175537/17cef74b566fadd7#17cef74b566fadd7>). Second, if
you click on any link in the Pager (the Pager looks like "1 2 ...
56 57 58 59 ... 567 568"), the page where you'll end does not
match the link you clicked, because the link targets have changed.
The problem is that the Pager is a stateful component, and
everytime you change the page, the same components are reused
(return null). So, when you click "back", what you see is NOT what
you get.
Now... how do I solve this (in an elegant way, of course)? I
think the best solution is, somehow, keeping the state (or part of
it) of the component for all the pages. That way, when the user
backtracks, and clicks on something in the pager, I would be able
to go to the right state, and work from there.
Is this a situation that won't be resolved by response
().disableClientCaching()?
Paul
Miguel Arroz
http://www.terminalapp.net
http://www.ipragma.com
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