[Seaside] Design Pattern For Accessing Model from View/Controller?

[Philippe Marschall]

2007/8/29, Conrad Taylor <conradwt at gmail.com>:
> Hi Philipee, thanks for responding to my post.  For example, in Shaffer's
> tutorial, he did something similar to the following:
>
>
> WAComponent subclass: #PersonalInformationView
>
>
> model
>   ^model
>
> model
>   model := anObject
>
> WAComponent subclass: #AddressBook
>
> edit:  aPerson
>    |view|
>    view := PersonalInformationView new.
>    view model:  aPerson
>    self call: view.
>
>
> Thus, I take it that one needs to have accessors on the view if you're
> wanting to modify an instance of a model.

Not necessarily. It doesn't really matter where the view gets the
model from but accessors are probably the most common way.

> Now, each renderContentOn:
> represents a single view.

Each instance of a  component class represents a single view.

Cheers
Philippe

> -Conrad
>
>
> On 8/29/07, Philippe Marschall <philippe.marschall at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> >
> > 2007/8/29, Conrad Taylor <conradwt at gmail.com>:
> > > Hi, I have created a subclass of WAComponent.  Also, I have a class that
> > > represents a model and is a subclass of Object.  Thus, I was wondering,
> > > what's the best way to connect the my model to my component?  BTW, I
> have
> > > read the C. David Shaffer's tutorial, "Interlude:  Cleaning up the
> > > PersonalInformationView" and I'm just trying to see what the best
> approach
> > > for this.  Well, thanks in advance.
> >
> > In general the view components directly reference the model, e.g. from
> > an instance variable.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Philippe
> >
> > > -Conrad
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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