not just getModelObject() also the toString variants for rendering and so on
The component has to get its data. Ok this isnt the case for Component
itself or the containers
But for Labels, Links, buttons and all form components it is pretty needed.
So the component should be able to access any way so it can also detach it..
johan
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Eelco Hillenius <
eelco.hillenius@...>
wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Igor Vaynberg <
igor.vaynberg@...>
> wrote:
> > i dont think it exposes anything, or that anything is flawed. the
> > component provides a slot for a default model - it is there totally
> > out of convinience. i think what is flawed here is that we tied the
> > two types via generics.
>
> It depends on how you phrase things. It is a fact that currently
> models and components are tightly bound because of 'getModelObject'.
>
> The main issue is that with 1.3 you can simply omit the model, whereas
> with generified components the choice to not use a model is explicit
> (whether you use void, or an annotation to ignore warnings). Very
> annoying if you ask me, and it triggered me to think that this is
> another hint that the one-one relationship between components and
> models like we have now is somewhat flawed. I'm not saying it totally
> stinks and that we should get rid of it tomorrow, just that it is
> something we might rethink. You know I'm a fan of rethinking stuff ;-)
>
> Eelco
>
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