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: Paul Lynch <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:48:19 +0100
That's all a matter of perspective. It may be easier to change your
perspective slightly than to rewrite your application :-). I'd say
that the vast majority of web applications, not just WO ones, work by
refreshing backtracked pages.
Paul
On 29 Jun 2007, at 15:19, Miguel Arroz wrote:
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).
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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