[Seaside] 2.5 sushi store shopping cart & back button
Avi Bryant
avi.bryant at gmail.com
Tue Nov 15 01:18:46 CET 2005
On Nov 14, 2005, at 3:53 PM, Brent Vukmer wrote:
> I'm using an image downloaded from seaside.st; I was playing with
> the sushi store demo, specifically the shopping cart.
>
> I went to the Anago page and added 3 pieces of Anago in the
> shopping cart, then hit the back button (so that the total went
> down to 2), then clicked done. The main page said I had 3 pieces
> of Anago. Shouldn't the total have changed to 2 pieces of Anago?
>
No. Ignoring your sense of what the framework does: is that what you
would want a shopping cart to do? When I put something in my cart, I
expect it to stay there until I explicitly remove it, regardless of
what navigation I do. This is a choice that needs to be made
(consciously or not) for every piece of state in a Seaside
application - is this state basically navigational, or temporal?
Should it backtrack or shouldn't it? That's why you have to
explicitly register each object for backtracking with the session;
it's just not a choice the framework can make for you. The shopping
cart is actually the classic example I use of state that *shouldn't*
backtrack, but in general, I tend to say that UI state should be
backtracked and model state shouldn't.
Cheers,
Avi
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