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svn commit: r1025970 [1/5] - in /websites/production/tapestry/content: ./
cache/
Author: buildbot
Date: Sun Feb 25 23:20:05 2018
New Revision: 1025970
Log:
Production update by buildbot for tapestry
Modified:
websites/production/tapestry/content/annotations.html
websites/production/tapestry/content/beaneditform-guide.html
websites/production/tapestry/content/cache/main.pageCache
websites/production/tapestry/content/class-reloading.html
websites/production/tapestry/content/component-classes.html
websites/production/tapestry/content/component-mixins.html
websites/production/tapestry/content/component-parameters.html
websites/production/tapestry/content/component-reference.html
websites/production/tapestry/content/component-rendering.html
websites/production/tapestry/content/component-templates.html
websites/production/tapestry/content/configuration.html
websites/production/tapestry/content/dom.html
websites/production/tapestry/content/extending-the-if-component.html
websites/production/tapestry/content/layout-component.html
websites/production/tapestry/content/legacy-javascript.html
websites/production/tapestry/content/localization.html
websites/production/tapestry/content/page-life-cycle.html
websites/production/tapestry/content/page-navigation.html
websites/production/tapestry/content/parameter-type-coercion.html
websites/production/tapestry/content/project-layout.html
websites/production/tapestry/content/property-expressions.html
websites/production/tapestry/content/request-processing.html
websites/production/tapestry/content/runtime-exceptions.html
websites/production/tapestry/content/supported-environments-and-versions.html
websites/production/tapestry/content/switching-cases.html
Modified: websites/production/tapestry/content/annotations.html
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--- websites/production/tapestry/content/annotations.html (original)
+++ websites/production/tapestry/content/annotations.html Sun Feb 25 23:20:05 2018
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
</div>
-<p> </p><p>Tapestry relies heavily on Java <strong>annotations</strong> rather than XML files for almost all of its configuration. (In addition, Tapestry's method naming conventions mean you don't <em>have</em> to use annotations in many cases.)</p><p>Tapestry annotations are grouped into several distinct modules according to their purpose.</p><h2 id="Annotations-TapestryCoreandIoCAnnotations">Tapestry Core and IoC Annotations</h2><p>The majority of Tapestry annotations (those defined in the tapestry-core and tapestry-ioc modules) are very specific to Tapestry components or Tapestry IoC services:</p><div class="table-wrap"><table class="confluenceTable"><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/annotations/package-summary.html">Tapestry Component Annotations</a></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p>intended for use in page/component/mixin c
lasses</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/ioc/annotations/package-summary.html">Tapestry IoC Annotations</a></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p>for use by IoC services</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><h2 id="Annotations-Annotationsfordataholdingclasses">Annotations for data holding classes</h2><p>In addition to the core and IoC annotations, there are a few annotations intended for data holding classes that are not Tapestry components; these annotations allow high-level components such as Grid and BeanEditForm to create powerful user interfaces with out any additional coding. Because these annotations are separated from the rest of Tapestry, they can be used inside your data tier classes <em>without</em> having to bring all of Tapestry into your classpath. This is very useful in multi-tier applications where data objects may ori
ginate in an application tier (such as a JEE application server) and travel to the presentation tier (a Tapestry application).</p><div class="table-wrap"><table class="confluenceTable"><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/beaneditor/package-summary.html">BeanEditForm Annotations</a></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p>for users of the BeanEditForm and Grid components</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/hibernate/annotations/package-summary.html">Hibernate Annotations</a></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p>for users of the Tapestry-Hibernate library</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><h2 id="Annotations-UpgradeNotes–Release5.0.12">Upgrade Notes – Release 5.0.12</h2><p>The artif
act id for the annotations module has changed from <code>tapestry-annotations</code> to <code>tapestry5-annotations</code>. This is necessary to support Tapestry 4 and Tapestry 5 applications co-existing within a single WAR.</p></div>
+<p> </p><p>Tapestry relies heavily on Java <strong>annotations</strong> rather than XML files for almost all of its configuration. (In addition, Tapestry's method naming conventions mean you don't <em>have</em> to use annotations in many cases.)</p><p>Tapestry annotations are grouped into several distinct modules according to their purpose.</p><h2 id="Annotations-TapestryCoreandIoCAnnotations">Tapestry Core and IoC Annotations</h2><p>The majority of Tapestry annotations (those defined in the tapestry-core and tapestry-ioc modules) are very specific to Tapestry components or Tapestry IoC services:</p><div class="table-wrap"><table class="confluenceTable"><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/annotations/package-summary.html">Tapestry Component Annotations</a></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p>intended for use in page/component/mixin c
lasses</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/ioc/annotations/package-summary.html">Tapestry IoC Annotations</a></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p>for use by IoC services</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><h2 id="Annotations-Annotationsfordataholdingclasses">Annotations for data holding classes</h2><p>In addition to the core and IoC annotations, there are a few annotations intended for data holding classes that are not Tapestry components; these annotations allow high-level components such as Grid and BeanEditForm to create powerful user interfaces with out any additional coding. Because these annotations are separated from the rest of Tapestry, they can be used inside your data tier classes <em>without</em> having to bring all of Tapestry into your classpath. This is very useful in multi-tier applications where data objects may ori
ginate in an application tier (such as a JEE application server) and travel to the presentation tier (a Tapestry application).</p><div class="table-wrap"><table class="confluenceTable"><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/beaneditor/package-summary.html">BeanEditForm Annotations</a></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p>for users of the BeanEditForm and Grid components</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/hibernate/annotations/package-summary.html">Hibernate Annotations</a></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p>for users of the Tapestry-Hibernate library</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><h2 id="Annotations-UpgradeNotes–Release5.0.12">Upgrade Notes – Release 5.0.12</h2><p>The artif
act id for the annotations module has changed from <code>tapestry-annotations</code> to <code>tapestry5-annotations</code>. This is necessary to support Tapestry 4 and Tapestry 5 applications co-existing within a single WAR.</p><p></p></div>
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<div class="clearer"></div>
Modified: websites/production/tapestry/content/beaneditform-guide.html
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--- websites/production/tapestry/content/beaneditform-guide.html (original)
+++ websites/production/tapestry/content/beaneditform-guide.html Sun Feb 25 23:20:05 2018
@@ -31,8 +31,6 @@
<link href='/resources/highlighter/styles/shThemeCXF.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' />
<script src='/resources/highlighter/scripts/shCore.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
<script src='/resources/highlighter/scripts/shBrushJava.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
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- <script src='/resources/highlighter/scripts/shBrushPlain.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
<script>
SyntaxHighlighter.defaults['toolbar'] = false;
SyntaxHighlighter.all();
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</div>
<div id="content">
- <div id="ConfluenceContent"><p><strong>BeanEditForm</strong> is a powerful Tapestry component capable of generating a complete create/edit user interface for a typical JavaBean.</p><div class="navmenu" style="float:right; background:#eee; margin:3px; padding:0 1em">
-<p> <strong>JumpStart Demos:</strong><br clear="none">
- <a class="external-link" href="http://jumpstart.doublenegative.com.au/jumpstart/examples/input/edit1/1" rel="nofollow">Edit (Using BeanEditForm)</a><br clear="none">
- <a class="external-link" href="http://jumpstart.doublenegative.com.au/jumpstart/examples/input/create1" rel="nofollow">Create (Using BeanEditForm)</a><br clear="none">
- <a class="external-link" href="http://jumpstart.doublenegative.com.au/jumpstart/examples/input/morecontroledit1/1" rel="nofollow">More Control Edit (Using BeanEditor)</a></p></div>BeanEditForm analyzes the the properties of the bean, locating just those properties that are readable and writeable. It filters down to properties whose type is mapped to a known editor (this is described in more detail below).<p>The default ordering for properties is in the order in which the <em>getter methods</em> for the properties are defined. When a super-class defines editable properties, those are ordered before sub-class properties.</p><h2 id="BeanEditFormGuide-SupportedTypes">Supported Types</h2><p>The default set of property types supported by BeanEditForm:</p><ul><li>String: as a text field</li><li>Number: as a text field</li><li>Enum: as a drop-down list</li><li>Boolean: as a checkbox</li><li>Date: as a JavaScript calendar</li><li>Calendar: as a JavaScript calendar</li></ul><p>Resolving
a property type to an editor type involves a search up the inheritance hierarchy: thus the super-type of Integer, Long, BigDecimal, etc. is Number, which uses a text field for data entry.</p><p>The list of supported property types is extensible (this is documented below).</p><h2 id="BeanEditFormGuide-AutomaticObjectCreation">Automatic Object Creation</h2><p>When a page is rendered, the BeanEditForm component will read its object parameter as the JavaBean to edit (with the current properties of the JavaBean becoming the defaults for the various fields). Likewise, when the form is submitted by the user, the object parameter is read and its properties populated from the request.</p><p>If the object does not exist, it will be created as needed. The type is determined from the property type, which should be a specific type in order for automatic creation to operate properly.</p><p>The BeanEditForm component will attempt to instantiate a value for the property as necessary, when the form
is submitted. This can be a problem when the property type is an interface, rather than an instantiable class.</p><p>One option is to provide an event handler for the "prepare" or "prepareForSubmit" events to instantiate an instance to receive the submitted information.</p><p>For a class, Tapestry will select the public constructor with the <em>most</em> parameters. If this is not desirable (for example, if you get an exception), then place the @<a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/ioc/annotations/Inject.html">Inject</a> annotation on the constructor Tapestry should use.</p><h2 id="BeanEditFormGuide-ImplicitObjectBinding">Implicit Object Binding</h2><p>If the object parameter is not bound, then an implicit binding to a property of the containing component is made. The bound property will be the BeanEditForm component's id, if such a property exists. Thus you may typically give the BeanEditForm component an id (that matches a
property) and not have to bind the object parameter.</p><h2 id="BeanEditFormGuide-Non-VisualProperties">Non-Visual Properties</h2><p>In some cases, a property may be updatable and of a supported type for editing, but should not be presented to the user for editing: for example, a property that holds the primary key of a database entity. In such a case, the @<a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/beaneditor/NonVisual.html">NonVisual</a> annotation may be applied to the property (either the getter or the setter method).</p><h2 id="BeanEditFormGuide-DefaultValidation">Default Validation</h2><p>Default validation for fields is primary determined by property type.</p><p>If desired, additional validation may be specified using the @<a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/beaneditor/Validate.html">Validate</a> annotation. See <a href="forms-and-validation.html">Forms and Valid
ation</a>.</p><p>As of Tapestry 5.2, validation may also be specified via the containing component's property file, using a key in the form of <code>propertyId-validate</code> (eg: myfield-validate=required).</p><h2 id="BeanEditFormGuide-Propertyordering">Property ordering</h2><p>By default, the order in which properties are presented is as defined above (order of the getter method). This can be overridden using the <a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/beaneditor/ReorderProperties.html">ReorderProperties</a> class annotation.</p><h2 id="BeanEditFormGuide-DefaultLabel">Default Label</h2><p>Tapestry will attempt to provide a reasonable default label for each field, based on the property name being emitted. The property name is capitalized, and spaces are added before case changes, thus property "name" becomes label "Name" and property "streetAddress" becomes label "Street Address".</p><p>BeanEditForm also searches for a label
for the field in the containing component's message catalog. The message key is the property name suffixed with "-label". If such a label is found, it takes precedence.</p><h1 id="BeanEditFormGuide-PropertyEditorOverrides">Property Editor Overrides</h1><p>You may override the editor for any particular property, using the a block parameter to the BeanEditForm component.</p><p>An editor normally consists of a Label component and some form of field component (such as TextField or TextArea).</p><p>For example, you may want to selectively use a PasswordField component:</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
+ <div id="ConfluenceContent"><p><strong>BeanEditForm</strong> is a powerful Tapestry component capable of generating a complete create/edit user interface for a typical JavaBean.</p><div style="float: right; max-width: 30%; margin: 1em"><div class="panel" style="border-color: #eee;border-width: 1px;"><div class="panelHeader" style="border-bottom-width: 1px;border-bottom-color: #eee;background-color: #eee;"><b>JumpStart Demos</b></div><div class="panelContent">
+<ul><li><p><a class="external-link" href="http://jumpstart.doublenegative.com.au/jumpstart/examples/input/edit1/1" rel="nofollow">Edit (Using BeanEditForm)</a></p></li><li><a class="external-link" href="http://jumpstart.doublenegative.com.au/jumpstart/examples/input/create1" rel="nofollow">Create (Using BeanEditForm)</a></li><li><a class="external-link" href="http://jumpstart.doublenegative.com.au/jumpstart/examples/input/morecontroledit1/1" rel="nofollow">More Control Edit (Using BeanEditor)</a></li></ul>
+</div></div></div>
+
+
+<p>BeanEditForm analyzes the the properties of the bean, locating just those properties that are readable and writeable. It filters down to properties whose type is mapped to a known editor (this is described in more detail below).</p><p>The default ordering for properties is in the order in which the <em>getter methods</em> for the properties are defined. When a super-class defines editable properties, those are ordered before sub-class properties.</p><h2 id="BeanEditFormGuide-SupportedTypes">Supported Types</h2><p>The default set of property types supported by BeanEditForm:</p><ul><li>String: as a text field</li><li>Number: as a text field</li><li>Enum: as a drop-down list</li><li>Boolean: as a checkbox</li><li>Date: as a JavaScript calendar</li><li>Calendar: as a JavaScript calendar</li></ul><p>Resolving a property type to an editor type involves a search up the inheritance hierarchy: thus the super-type of Integer, Long, BigDecimal, etc. is Number, which uses a text field for da
ta entry.</p><p>The list of supported property types is extensible (this is documented below).</p><h2 id="BeanEditFormGuide-AutomaticObjectCreation">Automatic Object Creation</h2><p>When a page is rendered, the BeanEditForm component will read its object parameter as the JavaBean to edit (with the current properties of the JavaBean becoming the defaults for the various fields). Likewise, when the form is submitted by the user, the object parameter is read and its properties populated from the request.</p><p>If the object does not exist, it will be created as needed. The type is determined from the property type, which should be a specific type in order for automatic creation to operate properly.</p><p>The BeanEditForm component will attempt to instantiate a value for the property as necessary, when the form is submitted. This can be a problem when the property type is an interface, rather than an instantiable class.</p><p>One option is to provide an event handler for the "prepare" o
r "prepareForSubmit" events to instantiate an instance to receive the submitted information.</p><p>For a class, Tapestry will select the public constructor with the <em>most</em> parameters. If this is not desirable (for example, if you get an exception), then place the @<a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/ioc/annotations/Inject.html">Inject</a> annotation on the constructor Tapestry should use.</p><h2 id="BeanEditFormGuide-ImplicitObjectBinding">Implicit Object Binding</h2><p>If the object parameter is not bound, then an implicit binding to a property of the containing component is made. The bound property will be the BeanEditForm component's id, if such a property exists. Thus you may typically give the BeanEditForm component an id (that matches a property) and not have to bind the object parameter.</p><h2 id="BeanEditFormGuide-Non-VisualProperties">Non-Visual Properties</h2><p>In some cases, a property may be updatable a
nd of a supported type for editing, but should not be presented to the user for editing: for example, a property that holds the primary key of a database entity. In such a case, the @<a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/beaneditor/NonVisual.html">NonVisual</a> annotation may be applied to the property (either the getter or the setter method).</p><h2 id="BeanEditFormGuide-DefaultValidation">Default Validation</h2><p>Default validation for fields is primary determined by property type.</p><p>If desired, additional validation may be specified using the @<a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/beaneditor/Validate.html">Validate</a> annotation. See <a href="forms-and-validation.html">Forms and Validation</a>.</p><p>As of Tapestry 5.2, validation may also be specified via the containing component's property file, using a key in the form of <code>propertyId-validate</code> (e
g: myfield-validate=required).</p><h2 id="BeanEditFormGuide-Propertyordering">Property ordering</h2><p>By default, the order in which properties are presented is as defined above (order of the getter method). This can be overridden using the <a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/beaneditor/ReorderProperties.html">ReorderProperties</a> class annotation.</p><h2 id="BeanEditFormGuide-DefaultLabel">Default Label</h2><p>Tapestry will attempt to provide a reasonable default label for each field, based on the property name being emitted. The property name is capitalized, and spaces are added before case changes, thus property "name" becomes label "Name" and property "streetAddress" becomes label "Street Address".</p><p>BeanEditForm also searches for a label for the field in the containing component's message catalog. The message key is the property name suffixed with "-label". If such a label is found, it takes precedence.</p><h1 id
="BeanEditFormGuide-PropertyEditorOverrides">Property Editor Overrides</h1><p>You may override the editor for any particular property, using the a block parameter to the BeanEditForm component.</p><p>An editor normally consists of a Label component and some form of field component (such as TextField or TextArea).</p><p>For example, you may want to selectively use a PasswordField component:</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
<pre class="brush: java; gutter: false; theme: Default" style="font-size:12px;"> <t:beaneditform object="loginCredentials">
<p:password>
<t:label for="password"/>
Modified: websites/production/tapestry/content/cache/main.pageCache
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Modified: websites/production/tapestry/content/class-reloading.html
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--- websites/production/tapestry/content/class-reloading.html (original)
+++ websites/production/tapestry/content/class-reloading.html Sun Feb 25 23:20:05 2018
@@ -31,8 +31,6 @@
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<script src='/resources/highlighter/scripts/shBrushJava.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
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@@ -111,11 +109,11 @@
<p>One of the best features of Tapestry is automatic reloading of changed classes and templates. <em>Page and component</em> classes will automatically reload when changed. Likewise, changes to component templates and other related resources will also be picked up immediately. In addition, starting in version 5.2, your service classes will also be reloaded automatically after changes (if you're using <a href="ioc.html">Tapestry IoC</a>).</p><h2 id="ClassReloading-Contents">Contents</h2><p><style type="text/css">/*<![CDATA[*/
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<ul class="toc-indentation"><li><a href="#ClassReloading-TemplateReloading">Template Reloading</a></li><li><a href="#ClassReloading-ClassReloading">Class Reloading</a></li><li><a href="#ClassReloading-PackagesScanned">Packages Scanned</a></li><li><a href="#ClassReloading-FileSystemOnly">File System Only</a></li><li><a href="#ClassReloading-ClassLoaderIssues">Class Loader Issues</a></li><li><a href="#ClassReloading-ClassCastExceptions">ClassCastExceptions</a></li><li><a href="#ClassReloading-HandlingReloadsinyourCode">Handling Reloads in your Code</a></li><li><a href="#ClassReloading-CheckingForUpdates">Checking For Updates</a></li><li><a href="#ClassReloading-TroubleshootingLiveClassReloading">Troubleshooting Live Class Reloading</a>
<ul class="toc-indentation"><li><a href="#ClassReloading-QuickChecklist">Quick Checklist</a></li><li><a href="#ClassReloading-IfLiveClassReloadingdoesn'twork">If Live Class Reloading doesn't work</a>
<ul class="toc-indentation"><li><a href="#ClassReloading-ProductionMode">Production Mode</a></li><li><a href="#ClassReloading-BuildPathIssues">Build Path Issues</a></li><li><a href="#ClassReloading-BuildingAutomatically">Building Automatically</a></li><li><a href="#ClassReloading-TurnoffJVMhotcodeswapping&automaticrestarts">Turn off JVM hot code swapping & automatic restarts</a></li></ul>
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</div></div><p>This is the intent of service builder methods; to do more than just injecting dependencies.</p><h2 id="ClassReloading-CheckingForUpdates">Checking For Updates</h2><p>The built in InvalidationEventHub services provide notifications of changes to component classes, to component templates, and to component message catalogs. If you wish to check some other resources (for example, files in a directory of the file system or rows in a database table), you should register as an <a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/services/UpdateListener.html">UpdateListener</a> with the <a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/services/UpdateListenerHub.html">UpdateListenerHub</a> service.</p><p>Periodically (the frequency is configurable), UpdateListeners are notified that they should check for updates. Typically, UpdateListeners are also InvalidationEventHubs (or provide Invali
dationEventHubs), so that other interested parties can be alerted when underlying data changes.</p><h2 id="ClassReloading-TroubleshootingLiveClassReloading">Troubleshooting Live Class Reloading</h2><h3 id="ClassReloading-QuickChecklist">Quick Checklist</h3><ul><li>"Production Mode" must be false (in Tapestry 5.3 and later)</li><li>The class must be one that Tapestry instantiates (a page, component, or mixin class, or a Tapestry IOC service implementation that implements an interface)</li><li>Turn on "Build Automatically" in your IDE, or remember to build manually.</li><li>Turn <em>off</em> JVM hot code swapping, if your servlet container supports it.</li><li>Eclipse: Uncheck the "derived" checkbox for the Target dir (in the Project Explorer view, right click on "target", select properties, uncheck "derived" on the Resource tab)</li></ul><p>Some of these issues are described in more detail below.</p><h3 id="ClassReloading-IfLiveClassReloadingdoesn'twork">If Live Class Reloading doesn
't work</h3><h4 id="ClassReloading-ProductionMode">Production Mode</h4><p>Starting with Tapestry 5.3, Live Class Reloading only works when not in "Production Mode". Check your application module (usually AppModule.java) to be sure you have:</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
<pre class="brush: java; gutter: false; theme: Default" style="font-size:12px;">configuration.add(SymbolConstants.PRODUCTION_MODE, "false");
</pre>
-</div></div><p>and that this isn't being overridden to "true" on your application's startup command line.</p><h4 id="ClassReloading-BuildPathIssues">Build Path Issues</h4><p>Live Class Reloading can fail if your build path isn't set correctly, and the exact configuration may differ between Maven plugin versions and Eclipse versions. The build process must be set to create classes in a folder which is in the servlet container's classpath.</p><p>Live Class Reloading won't work correctly with vanilla Tomcat without some tweaks (see below).</p><p>Non-Tapestry filters can interfere with LCR. Try disabling other filters in your web.xml file to see if that helps.</p><h4 id="ClassReloading-BuildingAutomatically">Building Automatically</h4><p>Although LCR allows you to see changes without restarting your app, you still need to "build" your project (to compile the Java source into byte code). Your IDE can be set to do this automatically every time you save a file. (In Eclipse, this is done us
ing <code>Project > Build Automatically</code>.) Alternatively, you can manually trigger a build after you save a file. (In Eclipse, this is done using <code>Project > Build</code>, or by pressing <code>Control-B</code>.)</p><h4 id="ClassReloading-TurnoffJVMhotcodeswapping&automaticrestarts">Turn off JVM hot code swapping & automatic restarts</h4><p>Many servlet containers, including Tomcat and Jetty, support various forms of hot code swapping and/or automatic restarts when file changes are detected. These are generally <strong>much slower</strong> than LCR and usually should be turned off with Tapestry applications. If you're using RunJettyRun plugin for Eclipse, for example, edit your Run Configuration, and on the Jetty tab, click Show Advanced Options and uncheck the Enable Scanner checkbox.</p><h3 id="ClassReloading-TomcatSpecifics">Tomcat Specifics</h3><p>See <a class="external-link" href="http://www.tynamo.org/Developing+with+Tomcat+and+Eclipse/" rel="nofollow">
these Tomcat-specific hints</a></p><h3 id="ClassReloading-IfLiveClassReloadingworksbutisslow">If Live Class Reloading works but is slow</h3><p>If LCR works for you but is slow (more than a second or two), consider the following.</p><ul><li>Be sure your project source files (your workspace in Eclipse, for example), are on a local drive, NOT a network location. Network drives are always slower, and the file system scanning needed for LCR can add a noticable lag if I/O is slow. If you use Maven, be sure to put your local repository (e.g. ~/.m2/repository) on a local drive for similar reasons.</li><li><p>Java 7 and below: Since LCR adds classes to your PermGen space, you may be running low on PermGen memory (and may eventually get a "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space" error). Try increasing PermGen size with a JVM argument of something like -XX:MaxPermSize=400m. (PermGen settings are not relevant for Java 8 and above.)</p></li></ul><p> </p></div>
+</div></div><p>and that this isn't being overridden to "true" on your application's startup command line.</p><h4 id="ClassReloading-BuildPathIssues">Build Path Issues</h4><p>Live Class Reloading can fail if your build path isn't set correctly, and the exact configuration may differ between Maven plugin versions and Eclipse versions. The build process must be set to create classes in a folder which is in the servlet container's classpath.</p><p>Live Class Reloading won't work correctly with vanilla Tomcat without some tweaks (see below).</p><p>Non-Tapestry filters can interfere with LCR. Try disabling other filters in your web.xml file to see if that helps.</p><h4 id="ClassReloading-BuildingAutomatically">Building Automatically</h4><p>Although LCR allows you to see changes without restarting your app, you still need to "build" your project (to compile the Java source into byte code). Your IDE can be set to do this automatically every time you save a file. (In Eclipse, this is done us
ing <code>Project > Build Automatically</code>.) Alternatively, you can manually trigger a build after you save a file. (In Eclipse, this is done using <code>Project > Build</code>, or by pressing <code>Control-B</code>.)</p><h4 id="ClassReloading-TurnoffJVMhotcodeswapping&automaticrestarts">Turn off JVM hot code swapping & automatic restarts</h4><p>Many servlet containers, including Tomcat and Jetty, support various forms of hot code swapping and/or automatic restarts when file changes are detected. These are generally <strong>much slower</strong> than LCR and usually should be turned off with Tapestry applications. If you're using RunJettyRun plugin for Eclipse, for example, edit your Run Configuration, and on the Jetty tab, click Show Advanced Options and uncheck the Enable Scanner checkbox.</p><h3 id="ClassReloading-TomcatSpecifics">Tomcat Specifics</h3><p>See <a class="external-link" href="http://www.tynamo.org/Developing+with+Tomcat+and+Eclipse/" rel="nofollow">
these Tomcat-specific hints</a></p><h3 id="ClassReloading-IfLiveClassReloadingworksbutisslow">If Live Class Reloading works but is slow</h3><p>If LCR works for you but is slow (more than a second or two), consider the following.</p><ul><li>Be sure your project source files (your workspace in Eclipse, for example), are on a local drive, NOT a network location. Network drives are always slower, and the file system scanning needed for LCR can add a noticable lag if I/O is slow. If you use Maven, be sure to put your local repository (e.g. ~/.m2/repository) on a local drive for similar reasons.</li><li><p>Java 7 and below: Since LCR adds classes to your PermGen space, you may be running low on PermGen memory (and may eventually get a "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space" error). Try increasing PermGen size with a JVM argument of something like -XX:MaxPermSize=400m. (PermGen settings are not relevant for Java 8 and above.)</p></li></ul><p></p><p> </p><p> </p></div>
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Modified: websites/production/tapestry/content/component-classes.html
==============================================================================
--- websites/production/tapestry/content/component-classes.html (original)
+++ websites/production/tapestry/content/component-classes.html Sun Feb 25 23:20:05 2018
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ public class HelloWorld
}
}
</pre>
-</div></div><p>In this example, just like the first one, the component's only job is to write out a fixed message. The @<a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/annotations/BeginRender.html">BeginRender</a> annotation is a type of <em><a href="component-rendering.html">render phase annotation</a></em></p><p>, a method annotation that instructs Tapestry when and under what circumstances to invoke methods of your class.</p><p>These methods are not necessarily public; they can have any access level you like (unlike in Tapestry 4). By convention they usually have package-private access level (the default).</p><h2 id="ComponentClasses-ComponentPackages">Component Packages</h2><p>Component classes must exist within an appropriate package (this is necessary for runtime code transformation and class reloading to operate).</p><p>These packages exist under the application's root package, as follows:</p><ul><li>For pages, place classes in
<em>root</em>.<strong>pages</strong>. Page names are mapped to classes within this package.</li><li>For mixins, place classes in <em>root</em>.<strong>mixins</strong>. Mixin types are mapped to classes within this package.</li><li>For other components, place classes in <em>root</em>.<strong>components</strong>. Component types are mapped to classes within this package.</li></ul><p>In addition, it is common for an application to have base classes, often <em>abstract</em> base classes, that should not be directly referenced. These should <em>not</em> go in the <strong>pages</strong>, <strong>components</strong> or <strong>mixins</strong> packages, because they then look like valid pages, components or mixins. Instead, use the <em>root</em>.<strong>base</strong> package to store such base classes.</p><div class="confluence-information-macro confluence-information-macro-warning"><span class="aui-icon aui-icon-small aui-iconfont-error confluence-information-macro-icon"></span><div class
="confluence-information-macro-body"><p>Only component classes should go in any of these controlled packages; classes representing data, or interfaces, or anything that isn't precisely a component class, must go elsewhere. Any top-level class in any of the controlled packages will be transformed at runtime. The only exception is inner classes (anonymous or not), which are loaded by the same class loader as the component class loader, but not transformed as components.</p></div></div><h2 id="ComponentClasses-Sub-Folders/Sub-Packages">Sub-Folders / Sub-Packages</h2><p>Classes do not have to go directly inside the package (pages, components, mixins, etc.). It is valid to create a sub-package to store some of the classes. The sub-package name becomes part of the page name or component type. Thus you might define a page component <code>com.example.myapp.pages.admin.CreateUser</code> and the logical page name (which often shows up inside URLs) will be <strong>admin/CreateUser</strong>.</p
><p>Tapestry performs some simple optimizations of the logical page name (or component type, or mixin type). It checks to see if the package name is either a prefix or a suffix of the unqualified class name (case insensitively, of course) and removes the prefix or suffix if so. The net result is that a class name such as <code>com.example.myapp.pages.user.EditUser</code> will have a page name of <code>user/Edit</code> (instead of user<code>/EditUser</code>). The goal here is to provide shorter, more natural URLs.</p><h2 id="ComponentClasses-IndexPages">Index Pages</h2><p>One special simplification exists for Index pages: if the logical page name is Index after removing the package name from the unqualified class name, it will map to the root of that folder. A class such as <code>com.example.myapp.pages.user.IndexUser</code> or <code>com.example.myapp.pages.user.UserIndex</code> will have a page name of <code>user/</code>.</p><p>In previous versions of Tapestry there was also the con
cept of a start page configured with the <code><a href="configuration.html">tapestry.start-page-name</a></code> configuration symbol (defaults to "start"). If a page with a name as configured with that symbol exists at the root level, this page is used as the root URL. This has precedence over an existing Index page. If for example you have a page class <code>com.example.myapp.pages.Start</code> it will map to <code>/</code>.</p><div class="confluence-information-macro confluence-information-macro-warning"><span class="aui-icon aui-icon-small aui-iconfont-error confluence-information-macro-icon"></span><div class="confluence-information-macro-body"><p>Use of start-pages is discouraged and support for it will eventually be removed. Use an Index page instead.</p></div></div><h2 id="ComponentClasses-Pagesvs.Components">Pages vs. Components</h2><p>The distinction between pages and component is very, very small. The primary difference is the package name: <em>root</em>.<strong>pages</st
rong>.<em>PageName</em> for pages, and <em>root</em>.<strong>components</strong>.<em>ComponentType</em> for components. Conceptually, page components are simply the <em>root component</em> of a page's component tree.</p><p><em>For Tapestry 4 users: there was a much greater distinction in Tapestry 4 between pages and components, which showed up as separate interfaces and a hierarchy of abstract implementations to extend your classes from.</em></p><h2 id="ComponentClasses-ClassTransformation">Class Transformation</h2><p>Tapestry uses your class as a starting point. It <em>transforms</em> your class at runtime. This is necessary for a number of reasons, including to address how Tapestry shares pages between requests.</p><p>For the most part, these transformations are both sensible and invisible. In a few limited cases, they comprise a marginally <a class="external-link" href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/printerFriendly/articles/LeakyAbstractions.html" rel="nofollow">leaky abstr
action</a> – for instance, the scope restrictions on instance variables described below – but the programming model in general supports a very high level of developer productivity.</p><p>Because transformation doesn't occur until <em>runtime</em>, the build stage of your application is not affected by the fact that you are creating a Tapestry application. Further, your classes are absolutely simple POJOs during unit testing.</p><h2 id="ComponentClasses-LiveClassReloading">Live Class Reloading</h2><p>Main Article: <a href="class-reloading.html">Class Reloading</a></p><p>Component classes are monitored for changes by the framework. <a href="class-reloading.html">Classes are reloaded when changed</a>. This allows you to build your application with a speed approaching that of a scripting environment, without sacrificing any of the power of the Java platform.</p><p>And it's fast! You won't even notice that this magic class reloading has occurred.</p><p>The net result:
super productivity — change your class, see the change instantly. This is designed to be a blend of the best of scripting environments (such as Python or Ruby) with all the speed and power of Java backing it up.</p><p>However, class reloading <em>only</em> applies to component classes (pages, components and mixins) and, starting in 5.2, Tapestry IOC-based service implementations (with some restrictions). Other classes, such as service interfaces, entity/model classes, and other data objects, are loaded by the normal class loader and not subject to live class reloading.</p><h2 id="ComponentClasses-InstanceVariables">Instance Variables</h2><p>Tapestry components may have instance variables (unlike Tapestry 4, where you had to use <em>abstract properties</em>).</p><p>Since release 5.3.2, instance variables may be protected, or package private (that is, no access modifier). Under specific circumstances they may even be public (public fields must either be final, or have the @<a c
lass="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/annotations/Retain.html">Retain</a> annotation).</p><p><span>Be aware that you will need to either provide getter and setter methods to access your classes' instance variables, or else annotate the fields with</span><span> @</span><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/annotations/Property.html">Property</a>.</p><h2 id="ComponentClasses-TransientInstanceVariables">Transient Instance Variables</h2><p>Unless an instance variable is decorated with an annotation, it will be a <em>transient</em> instance variable. This means that its value resets to its default value at the end of reach request (when the <a href="page-life-cycle.html">page is detached from the request</a></p><p>).</p><div class="confluence-information-macro confluence-information-macro-note"><p class="title">About initialization</p><span class="aui-icon aui-icon-sm
all aui-iconfont-warning confluence-information-macro-icon"></span><div class="confluence-information-macro-body"><p>Never initialize an instance field to a <em>mutable</em> object at the point of declaration. If this is done, the instance created from that initializer becomes the default value for that field and is reused inside the component on every request. This could cause state to inadvertently be shared between different sessions in an application.</p></div></div>
+</div></div><p>In this example, just like the first one, the component's only job is to write out a fixed message. The @<a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/annotations/BeginRender.html">BeginRender</a> annotation is a type of <em><a href="component-rendering.html">render phase annotation</a></em></p><p>, a method annotation that instructs Tapestry when and under what circumstances to invoke methods of your class.</p><p>These methods are not necessarily public; they can have any access level you like (unlike in Tapestry 4). By convention they usually have package-private access level (the default).</p><h2 id="ComponentClasses-ComponentPackages">Component Packages</h2><p>Component classes must exist within an appropriate package (this is necessary for runtime code transformation and class reloading to operate).</p><p>These packages exist under the application's root package, as follows:</p><ul><li>For pages, place classes in
<em>root</em>.<strong>pages</strong>. Page names are mapped to classes within this package.</li><li>For mixins, place classes in <em>root</em>.<strong>mixins</strong>. Mixin types are mapped to classes within this package.</li><li>For other components, place classes in <em>root</em>.<strong>components</strong>. Component types are mapped to classes within this package.</li></ul><p>In addition, it is common for an application to have base classes, often <em>abstract</em> base classes, that should not be directly referenced. These should <em>not</em> go in the <strong>pages</strong>, <strong>components</strong> or <strong>mixins</strong> packages, because they then look like valid pages, components or mixins. Instead, use the <em>root</em>.<strong>base</strong> package to store such base classes.</p><div class="confluence-information-macro confluence-information-macro-warning"><span class="aui-icon aui-icon-small aui-iconfont-error confluence-information-macro-icon"></span><div class
="confluence-information-macro-body"><p>Only component classes should go in any of these controlled packages; classes representing data, or interfaces, or anything that isn't precisely a component class, must go elsewhere. Any top-level class in any of the controlled packages will be transformed at runtime. The only exception is inner classes (anonymous or not), which are loaded by the same class loader as the component class loader, but not transformed as components.</p></div></div><h2 id="ComponentClasses-Sub-Folders/Sub-Packages">Sub-Folders / Sub-Packages</h2><p>Classes do not have to go directly inside the package (pages, components, mixins, etc.). It is valid to create a sub-package to store some of the classes. The sub-package name becomes part of the page name or component type. Thus you might define a page component <code>com.example.myapp.pages.admin.CreateUser</code> and the logical page name (which often shows up inside URLs) will be <strong>admin/CreateUser</strong>.</p
><p>Tapestry performs some simple optimizations of the logical page name (or component type, or mixin type). It checks to see if the package name is either a prefix or a suffix of the unqualified class name (case insensitively, of course) and removes the prefix or suffix if so. The net result is that a class name such as <code>com.example.myapp.pages.user.EditUser</code> will have a page name of <code>user/Edit</code> (instead of user<code>/EditUser</code>). The goal here is to provide shorter, more natural URLs.</p><h2 id="ComponentClasses-IndexPages">Index Pages</h2><p>One special simplification exists for Index pages: if the logical page name is Index after removing the package name from the unqualified class name, it will map to the root of that folder. A class such as <code>com.example.myapp.pages.user.IndexUser</code> or <code>com.example.myapp.pages.user.UserIndex</code> will have a page name of <code>user/</code>.</p><p>In previous versions of Tapestry there was also the con
cept of a start page configured with the <code><a href="configuration.html">tapestry.start-page-name</a></code> configuration symbol (defaults to "start"). If a page with a name as configured with that symbol exists at the root level, this page is used as the root URL. This has precedence over an existing Index page. If for example you have a page class <code>com.example.myapp.pages.Start</code> it will map to <code>/</code>.</p><div class="confluence-information-macro confluence-information-macro-warning"><span class="aui-icon aui-icon-small aui-iconfont-error confluence-information-macro-icon"></span><div class="confluence-information-macro-body"><p>Use of start-pages is discouraged and support for it will eventually be removed. Use an Index page instead.</p></div></div><h2 id="ComponentClasses-Pagesvs.Components">Pages vs. Components</h2><p>The distinction between pages and component is very, very small. The primary difference is the package name: <em>root</em>.<strong>pages</st
rong>.<em>PageName</em> for pages, and <em>root</em>.<strong>components</strong>.<em>ComponentType</em> for components. Conceptually, page components are simply the <em>root component</em> of a page's component tree.</p><p><em>For Tapestry 4 users: there was a much greater distinction in Tapestry 4 between pages and components, which showed up as separate interfaces and a hierarchy of abstract implementations to extend your classes from.</em></p><h2 id="ComponentClasses-ClassTransformation">Class Transformation</h2><p>Tapestry uses your class as a starting point. It <em>transforms</em> your class at runtime. This is necessary for a number of reasons, including to address how Tapestry shares pages between requests.</p><p>For the most part, these transformations are both sensible and invisible. In a few limited cases, they comprise a marginally <a class="external-link" href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/printerFriendly/articles/LeakyAbstractions.html" rel="nofollow">leaky abstr
action</a> – for instance, the scope restrictions on instance variables described below – but the programming model in general supports a very high level of developer productivity.</p><p>Because transformation doesn't occur until <em>runtime</em>, the build stage of your application is not affected by the fact that you are creating a Tapestry application. Further, your classes are absolutely simple POJOs during unit testing.</p><h2 id="ComponentClasses-LiveClassReloading">Live Class Reloading</h2><p>Main Article: <a href="class-reloading.html">Class Reloading</a></p><p>Component classes are monitored for changes by the framework. <a href="class-reloading.html">Classes are reloaded when changed</a>. This allows you to build your application with a speed approaching that of a scripting environment, without sacrificing any of the power of the Java platform.</p><p>And it's fast! You won't even notice that this magic class reloading has occurred.</p><p>The net result:
super productivity — change your class, see the change instantly. This is designed to be a blend of the best of scripting environments (such as Python or Ruby) with all the speed and power of Java backing it up.</p><p>However, class reloading <em>only</em> applies to component classes (pages, components and mixins) and, starting in 5.2, Tapestry IOC-based service implementations (with some restrictions). Other classes, such as service interfaces, entity/model classes, and other data objects, are loaded by the normal class loader and not subject to live class reloading.</p><h2 id="ComponentClasses-InstanceVariables">Instance Variables</h2><p>Tapestry components may have instance variables (unlike Tapestry 4, where you had to use <em>abstract properties</em>).</p><p>Since release 5.3.2, instance variables may be protected, or package private (that is, no access modifier). Under specific circumstances they may even be public (public fields must either be final, or have the @<a c
lass="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/annotations/Retain.html">Retain</a> annotation).</p><p><span>Be aware that you will need to either provide getter and setter methods to access your classes' instance variables, or else annotate the fields with</span><span> @</span><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/annotations/Property.html">Property</a>.</p><h2 id="ComponentClasses-TransientInstanceVariables">Transient Instance Variables</h2><p>Unless an instance variable is decorated with an annotation, it will be a <em>transient</em> instance variable. This means that its value resets to its default value at the end of reach request (when the <a href="page-life-cycle.html">page is detached from the request</a>).</p><div class="confluence-information-macro confluence-information-macro-note"><p class="title">About initialization</p><span class="aui-icon aui-icon-small aui
-iconfont-warning confluence-information-macro-icon"></span><div class="confluence-information-macro-body"><p>Never initialize an instance field to a <em>mutable</em> object at the point of declaration. If this is done, the instance created from that initializer becomes the default value for that field and is reused inside the component on every request. This could cause state to inadvertently be shared between different sessions in an application.</p></div></div>
<div class="aui-message aui-message-warning macro-deprecated"><b class="param-deprecated">Deprecated since 5.2</b>
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ public class Countdown
private int countValue;
}
</pre>
-</div></div><p>The above defines a component whose embedded id is "count" (this id is derived from the name of the field and an element with that id must be present in the corresponding template, otherwise an error is displayed (see below)). The type of the component is org.example.app.components.Count. The start and end parameters of the Count component are bound to literal values, and the value parameter of the Count component is bound to the countValue property of the Countdown component.</p><p>Technically, the start and end parameters should be bound to properties, just like the value parameter. However, certain literal values, such as the numeric literals in the example, are accepted by the <code>prop:</code> binding prefix even though they are not actually properties (this is largely as a convenience to the application developer). We could also use the <code>literal:</code> prefix, <code>"start=literal:5"</code>, which accomplishes largely the same thing.</p><p>You may specify
additional parameters inside the component template, but parameters in the component class take precedence.</p><p><strong>TODO: May want a more complex check; what if user uses prop: in the template and there's a conflict?</strong></p><p>You may override the default component id (as derived from the field name) using the id() attribute of the Component annotation.</p><p>If you define a component in the component class, and there is no corresponding element in the template, Tapestry will log an error. In the example above that would be the case if the template for the Countdown page didn't contain an element with <code><t:count t:id="count"></code>.</p></div>
+</div></div><p>The above defines a component whose embedded id is "count" (this id is derived from the name of the field and an element with that id must be present in the corresponding template, otherwise an error is displayed (see below)). The type of the component is org.example.app.components.Count. The start and end parameters of the Count component are bound to literal values, and the value parameter of the Count component is bound to the countValue property of the Countdown component.</p><p>Technically, the start and end parameters should be bound to properties, just like the value parameter. However, certain literal values, such as the numeric literals in the example, are accepted by the <code>prop:</code> binding prefix even though they are not actually properties (this is largely as a convenience to the application developer). We could also use the <code>literal:</code> prefix, <code>"start=literal:5"</code>, which accomplishes largely the same thing.</p><p>You may specify
additional parameters inside the component template, but parameters in the component class take precedence.</p><p><strong>TODO: May want a more complex check; what if user uses prop: in the template and there's a conflict?</strong></p><p>You may override the default component id (as derived from the field name) using the id() attribute of the Component annotation.</p><p>If you define a component in the component class, and there is no corresponding element in the template, Tapestry will log an error. In the example above that would be the case if the template for the Countdown page didn't contain an element with <code><t:count t:id="count"></code>.</p><p></p></div>
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Modified: websites/production/tapestry/content/component-mixins.html
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--- websites/production/tapestry/content/component-mixins.html (original)
+++ websites/production/tapestry/content/component-mixins.html Sun Feb 25 23:20:05 2018
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ private TextField userId;
@MixinClasses(value={Autocomplete.class,DefaultFromCookie.class},
order={"before:discardbody;after:renderdisabled","before:autocomplete")
</pre>
-</div></div><p>The ordering is always specified in terms of the order of the "forward" rendering process (setupRender, beginRender, etc.). When the "reverse" rendering phases (afterRender, etc.) occur, the mixin order is exactly reversed. Mixins which have no associated ordering constraints will be ordered in a manner which is consistent with the specified constraints for all other mixins, but is otherwise unspecified.</p><h2 id="ComponentMixins-AvailableMixins">Available Mixins</h2><p>Tapestry includes the following mixins out-of-the-box.</p><div class="table-wrap"><table class="confluenceTable"><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/mixins/Autocomplete.html">Autocomplete</a></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p>modifies a text field to provide for auto-completion of text using values retrieved from the server as the user types. <a
href="ajax-and-zones.html">See instructions</a>.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/mixins/Confirm.html">Confirm</a></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd">attached to a Form or link component, runs a modal-dialog to force the user to confirm the behavior. New for Tapestry 5.4.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/mixins/DiscardBody.html">DiscardBody</a></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p>discards a component's body. Returns false from the BeforeRenderBody phase, which prevents the rendering of the body.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/mixins/F
ormFieldFocus.html">FormFieldFocus</a></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p>instruments the outer Form on which component the focus should be activated. Replaced by OverrideFieldFocus starting in Tapestry 5.4.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/mixins/FormGroup.html">FormGroup</a></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd">attaches to a field to render an enclosing <div> element and label for proper Bootstrap markup of text fields, selects, and textareas</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/mixins/NotEmpty.html">NotEmpty</a></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p>attaches to any component that renders an element. At the end of the render, if the element is empty
, then a non-breaking space (&nbsp;) is injected into the element.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/mixins/OverrideFieldFocus.html">OverrideFieldFocus</a></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p>when attached to a form field, causes that field to gain focus. Starting in Tapestry 5.4, this supersedes FormFieldFocus.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/mixins/RenderClientId.html">RenderClientId</a></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p>forces a client element to render its client id by ensuring that "getClientId" is called.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/or
g/apache/tapestry5/corelib/mixins/RenderDisabled.html">RenderDisabled</a></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p>renders a "disabled" attribute if the containing component is disabled</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/mixins/RenderInformals.html">RenderInformals</a></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p>renders out all informal parameters, at the end of the BeginRender phase. This mixin can be used with components that render a single tag inside the BeginRender phase.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/mixins/RenderNotification.html">RenderNotification</a></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p>triggers component event notifications when the attach
ed component enters its BeginRender and AfterRender render phases.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/mixins/TriggerFragment.html">TriggerFragment</a></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p>when applied to a Checkbox or Radio component, links the input field and a FormFragment, making the field control the client-side visibility of the FormFragment</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/mixins/ZoneRefresh.html">ZoneRefresh</a></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p>periodically refreshes a Zone by triggering an event on the server using ajax requests.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p>In addition, the following mixins are available from other sources:</p><div class="tabl
e-wrap"><table class="confluenceTable"><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><a class="external-link" href="http://jumpstart.doublenegative.com.au/jumpstart/examples/javascript/creatingmixins1" rel="nofollow">ClickOnce</a></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p>From JumpStart, a mixin to apply to a submit button, ensuring it can't be double-clicked</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><a class="external-link" href="http://wiki.apache.org/tapestry/Tapestry5AndJavaScriptExplained">Confirm</a></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p>Adds a JavaScript <em>confirm</em> prompt to any link</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><a class="external-link" href="http://jumpstart.doublenegative.com.au/jumpstart7/examples/ajax/onevent" rel="nofollow">ZoneUpdater</a></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd">Updates a zone when a client-side event occurs</td><
/tr></tbody></table></div><h2 id="ComponentMixins-AdditionalTools">Additional Tools</h2><p><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestryxpath.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">Tapestry-Xpath</a> is a third-part Tapestry module that allows XPath traversal of the Tapestry (server-side) DOM, which can be extremely useful in certain mixins.</p></div>
+</div></div><p>The ordering is always specified in terms of the order of the "forward" rendering process (setupRender, beginRender, etc.). When the "reverse" rendering phases (afterRender, etc.) occur, the mixin order is exactly reversed. Mixins which have no associated ordering constraints will be ordered in a manner which is consistent with the specified constraints for all other mixins, but is otherwise unspecified.</p><h2 id="ComponentMixins-AvailableMixins">Available Mixins</h2><p>Tapestry includes the following mixins out-of-the-box.</p><div class="table-wrap"><table class="confluenceTable"><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/mixins/Autocomplete.html">Autocomplete</a></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p>modifies a text field to provide for auto-completion of text using values retrieved from the server as the user types. <a
href="ajax-and-zones.html">See instructions</a>.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/mixins/Confirm.html">Confirm</a></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd">attached to a Form or link component, runs a modal-dialog to force the user to confirm the behavior. New for Tapestry 5.4.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/mixins/DiscardBody.html">DiscardBody</a></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p>discards a component's body. Returns false from the BeforeRenderBody phase, which prevents the rendering of the body.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/mixins/F
ormFieldFocus.html">FormFieldFocus</a></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p>instruments the outer Form on which component the focus should be activated. Replaced by OverrideFieldFocus starting in Tapestry 5.4.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/mixins/FormGroup.html">FormGroup</a></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd">attaches to a field to render an enclosing <div> element and label for proper Bootstrap markup of text fields, selects, and textareas</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/mixins/NotEmpty.html">NotEmpty</a></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p>attaches to any component that renders an element. At the end of the render, if the element is empty
, then a non-breaking space (&nbsp;) is injected into the element.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/mixins/OverrideFieldFocus.html">OverrideFieldFocus</a></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p>when attached to a form field, causes that field to gain focus. Starting in Tapestry 5.4, this supersedes FormFieldFocus.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/mixins/RenderClientId.html">RenderClientId</a></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p>forces a client element to render its client id by ensuring that "getClientId" is called.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/or
g/apache/tapestry5/corelib/mixins/RenderDisabled.html">RenderDisabled</a></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p>renders a "disabled" attribute if the containing component is disabled</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/mixins/RenderInformals.html">RenderInformals</a></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p>renders out all informal parameters, at the end of the BeginRender phase. This mixin can be used with components that render a single tag inside the BeginRender phase.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/mixins/RenderNotification.html">RenderNotification</a></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p>triggers component event notifications when the attach
ed component enters its BeginRender and AfterRender render phases.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/mixins/TriggerFragment.html">TriggerFragment</a></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p>when applied to a Checkbox or Radio component, links the input field and a FormFragment, making the field control the client-side visibility of the FormFragment</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/mixins/ZoneRefresh.html">ZoneRefresh</a></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p>periodically refreshes a Zone by triggering an event on the server using ajax requests.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p>In addition, the following mixins are available from other sources:</p><div class="tabl
e-wrap"><table class="confluenceTable"><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><a class="external-link" href="http://jumpstart.doublenegative.com.au/jumpstart/examples/javascript/creatingmixins1" rel="nofollow">ClickOnce</a></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p>From JumpStart, a mixin to apply to a submit button, ensuring it can't be double-clicked</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><a class="external-link" href="http://wiki.apache.org/tapestry/Tapestry5AndJavaScriptExplained">Confirm</a></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p>Adds a JavaScript <em>confirm</em> prompt to any link</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><a class="external-link" href="http://jumpstart.doublenegative.com.au/jumpstart7/examples/ajax/onevent" rel="nofollow">ZoneUpdater</a></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd">Updates a zone when a client-side event occurs</td><
/tr></tbody></table></div><h2 id="ComponentMixins-AdditionalTools">Additional Tools</h2><p><a class="external-link" href="http://tapestryxpath.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">Tapestry-Xpath</a> is a third-part Tapestry module that allows XPath traversal of the Tapestry (server-side) DOM, which can be extremely useful in certain mixins.</p><p></p></div>
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- <div id="ConfluenceContent"><p><strong>Component parameters</strong> are the primary means for a component instance and its container to communicate with each other. Parameters are used to <em>configure</em> component instances.</p><div class="aui-label" style="float:right" title="Related Articles">
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<ul class="toc-indentation"><li><a href="#ComponentParameters-ParameterBindings">Parameter Bindings</a></li><li><a href="#ComponentParameters-BindingExpressions">Binding Expressions</a></li><li><a href="#ComponentParameters-@Parameterannotation">@Parameter annotation</a></li><li><a href="#ComponentParameters-Don'tusethe${...}syntax!">Don't use the ${...} syntax!</a></li><li><a href="#ComponentParameters-InformalParameters">Informal Parameters</a></li><li><a href="#ComponentParameters-ParametersAreBi-Directional">Parameters Are Bi-Directional</a></li><li><a href="#ComponentParameters-InheritedParameterBindings">Inherited Parameter Bindings</a></li><li><a href="#ComponentParameters-ComputedParameterBindingDefaults">Computed Parameter Binding Defaults</a></li><li><a href="#ComponentParameters-UnboundParameters">Unbound Parameters</a></li><li><a href="#ComponentParameters-ParameterTypeCoercion">Parameter Type Coercion</a></li><li><a href="#ComponentParameters-ParameterNames">
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</div></div></div> <p>The connection between a component and a property (or resource) of its container is called a <em>binding</em>. The binding is two-way: the component can read the bound property by reading its parameter field. Likewise, a component that updates its parameter field will update the bound property.</p><p>This is important in a lot of cases; for example a TextField component can read <em>and update</em> the property bound to its value parameter. It reads the value when rendering, but updates the value when the form is submitted.</p><p>The component listed below is a looping component; it renders its body a number of times, defined by its <code>start</code> and <code>end</code> parameters (which set the boundaries of the loop). The component can update a <code>result</code> parameter bound to a property of its container; it will automatically count up or down depending on whether <code>start</code> or <code>end</code> is larger.</p><div class="code panel pdl" st
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+</div></div><p>There are still cases where you want to use the "inherit:" binding prefix. For example, if you have several components that need to share a parameter, then you must do it the Tapestry 5.0 way: a true parameter on the outer component, and "inherit:" bindings on the embedded components. You can follow a similar pattern to rename a parameter in the outer component.</p><p></p></div>
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