[Seaside] Navigation in Seaside

[Vyacheslav Akhmechet]

Hi Lukas,

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 2:09 AM, Lukas Renggli <renggli at gmail.com> wrote:
>  sorry for not replying such a long time.
It's no rush :)

>  We do not do have the "friendly URL system" though. Just out of
>  curiosity: How do you handle conflicts in the URL, when multiple
>  navigation widgets appear on the same page?
At the moment we don't. If someone adds more than one navigation at
the same depth level on the widget tree, the behavior is undefined.
We're refactoring the navigation widget so we're trying to figure out
how to solve this problem. I think the best option so far is to allow
only one navigation widget per depth level to consume URI tokens.

>  I don't see anything wrong with the design
That's probably because you don't map the component to URLs. If you
did, you'd encounter the problem you mentioned above. Another problem
is temporarily replacing the root of the tree with a "dialog" page
that's later expect to return by invoking a continuation. The problem
with doing this is that when I replace the root, the navigation
widgets are gone and the URL the user is at (/foo/bar) becomes
invalid, so the server sends a 404. One way to solve this is to
temporarily redirect to '/', but this seems somewhat hackish.

I wanted to get an idea of what Seaside folks think about these issues.

BTW, I really like Magritte. I designed a similar system[1] for
Weblocks thinking I did something original. Oh well, there's nothing
new under the sun :)

- Slava

[1] http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/ui-dsl.html