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Re: Making Component easier to Generify

by Brill Pappin :: Rate this Message:

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on removing the finals

The final members are the worst thing I've had to deal with in Wicket  
so far.
Although I understand that there may be a reason for them, they are  
more a hinderance than anything else and seem to be trying to "protect  
users from themselves".

- Brill Pappin


On 12-Jun-08, at 1:03 AM, cowwoc wrote:

>
>
> Have you considered moving from subclassing to composition in Wicket  
> using
> Callable<T>?
>
> Currently it is quite common for developers to subclass a component  
> in order
> to override isVisible() and other properties. I am proposing that  
> instead
> the component classes become final and properties may only be set  
> using
> setter methods. The setter methods would take Callable<T> instead of  
> T, so
> for example setVisible(boolean) would become  
> setVisible(Callable<Boolean>)
>
> The benefit of this approach is that you could introduce static  
> factory
> methods to the Wicket components which would make them much easier  
> to use in
> their Generic form. You could then introduce various helper classes to
> create Callable<T> for constant values, such as  
> Callable.valueOf(true) would
> return a Callable<Boolean> that always returns true.
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