| Hi all,
I've always thought that using caret notation was a good idea when creating reuseable components, but it only seems to work for me about half the time, so I'm not sure I fully understand it.
I have a component that has a textfield whose "default" binding should be inherited from it's parent component bindings:
<wo:textfield value = "$date" id = "$id" size="~format.length()" dateformat = "$format" default="^default"/>
This textfield is embedded within a component named TextFieldCalendar. Here's my usage of TextFieldCalendar in another component:
<wo:TextFieldCalendar date = "$maxBidClosingDate" default = "Bid Closing Before"/>
When I run the application, I get the following exception:
Jun 29 10:44:50 LDC[11001] (ERXNSLogLog4jBridge.java:41) WARN NSLog - <er.extensions.ERXDirectActionRequestHandler>: Exception while handling action named "advancedSearch" on action class "LDC" :com.webobjects.foundation.NSKeyValueCoding$UnknownKeyException: [<TextFieldCalendar name: TextFieldCalendar subcomponents: null > takeValueForKey()]: attempt to assign value to unknown key: 'default'. This WOComponent does not have an instance variable of the name default or _default, nor a method of the name setDefault or _setDefault [2007-06-29 10:44:50 EDT] <WorkerThread10> com.webobjects.foundation.NSKeyValueCoding$UnknownKeyException: [<TextFieldCalendar name: TextFieldCalendar subcomponents: null > takeValueForKey()]: attempt to assign value to unknown key: 'default'. This WOComponent does not have an instance variable of the name default or _default, nor a method of the name setDefault or _setDefault at com.webobjects.appserver.WOComponent.handleTakeValueForUnboundKey(WOComponent.java:1580) at com.webobjects.foundation.NSKeyValueCoding$Utility.handleTakeValueForUnboundKey(NSKeyValueCoding.java:568) at com.webobjects.foundation.NSKeyValueCoding$_KeyBinding.setValueInObject(NSKeyValueCoding.java:925) at com.webobjects.foundation.NSKeyValueCoding$DefaultImplementation.takeValueForKey(NSKeyValueCoding.java:1293) at com.webobjects.appserver.WOComponent.takeValueForKey(WOComponent.java:1550) ...
I thought that the point of using caret notation was that you didn't have to declare a local variable called "default" in the reuseable component. Am I off track here? Has anyone else noticed this behavior?
Thanks, Mark |