[Seaside] chained WATasks need to be in #children?
Michal
michal-list at auf.net
Sat Feb 19 09:03:17 UTC 2011
bump. Anyone?
> I stumbled upon this surprising property of WATask in Seaside3 today (because it broke my old code): chaining two
> tasks works only if the second is returned by #children (though non-tasks don't need to be returned by #children).
> Could someone confirm this, and maybe explain it? Here is a much simplified scenario to reproduce the issue:
>
> Task1>>go
> self call: Task2 new
> Task2>>go
> self inform: Time now printString
>
> The above doesn't work, failing with WATaskNotDelegated. This on the other hand works:
>
> Task>>go
> self call: Component new
> Component>>renderContentOn: html
> html heading: Time now printString
>
> Furthermore, as soon as Task1 is modified to answer the Task2 instance in its #children, the first example starts
> working (regardless of whether it is the same Task2 instance across calls, or a new one on each cycle).
>
> So it looks like "chained tasks count as children components" and must be declared as such in #children, while
> "chained non-task components do not count as children components" (and hence do not need to be answered in
> #children). I couldn't find any info on that in tutorials or googles, so: is that right? And if so, why is there
> this asymmetry?
>
> thanks,
> Michal
>
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