Could you elaborate on why the "flash" persistence strategy is
insufficient for your needs?
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Joel Wiegman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All,
>
> Maybe I'm missing something here, maybe I'm not, but I'm attempting to
> preserve state JUST BETWEEN REQUESTS and I'm really struggling (I know
> in T5 there's <really> two requests, but for simplicity's sake let's
> just call the round trip from the browser a "request").
>
> My options are:
>
> 1) @Persist("session")
> - Obviously doesn't work well for just persisting values between
> requests, unless someone has come up with a reliable construct for
> nulling out these values whenever someone leaves the page?
>
> 2) @Persist("flash")
> - This is really only useful for messages and other objects that are
> reliably referenced once. This is NOT "request-scoped persistence".
>
> 3) @Persist("client")
> - While I thought initially thought that this would solve all my woes,
> instead every link in my application now carries around an huge encoded
> state variable in the URL. I'm completely missing the benefit of this
> versus just using session persistence (enlightenment appreciated).
>
> 4) Activation context magic
> - While this does make for clean and nifty URLs, the hassle of
> constructing the identifiers for complex objects and creating the
> contexts for them has not proven "worth it" to me (hint: composite
> primary keys are almost unusable). Also, if your page uses more than
> one dynamically-sized collection of objects, then you're out of luck.
>
> PLEASE PLEASE don't interpret this as Tapestry-bashing. Tapestry has
> been a delight to work with compared to previous frameworks I've used.
> I'm just really struggling with how to do something that, IMHO, a web
> framework should make very simple (request-scoped persistence).
>
> Anyone solve this riddle yet?
>
> Joel
>
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