[Seaside] [2.8]Slow connection causes problem

[Julian Fitzell]

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 4:19 AM, Carl Gundel <carlg at libertybasic.com> wrote:

>
> Hi Carl,
>
> How would you like Seaside to handle it?
>
> Is there a difference between this case and clicking on the link,
> waiting for the page to load, hitting the back button, and then
> clicking on a different link?
>
> Julian
>
>
> Hey Julian,
>
> Since Seaside claims to insulate the programmer from such things, it should
> have some mechanism to deal with this.  I recognize that this is a difficult
> problem, but if it can be solved nicely in the Seaside framework that would
> be great.
>
> What happens is that if the connection is slow (or if my app responds too
> slowly, but this is not the case here) then it makes sense to be able to
> declare any action (or all the actions on a page or in an app, or for mobile
> browsers) as doable just once or maybe doable again after so many
> milliseconds or seconds.  Then at least the developer can address the
> problem if needed.
>
> I supposed I could implement this myself somehow in my coding style.  How
> would you recommend this best be done?
>

It's not so much that it's hard technically, it's that it's hard
semantically. It's hard to even decide for one's *own* application what
should happen when a user hits the back button (which, as I said, is more or
less the same as clicking quickly on two links on the page). It near on
impossible to make this decision in a way that's useful across applications.

But as you say, the tools should be there to make it possible for
application developers to make the decisions they want. We'd be open to
suggestions on how you think such an API should behave.

Probably the simplest existing approach would be to subclass
WAActionPhaseContinuation and modify it so that it only allows itself to be
invoked once. You can configure your application to use that subclass
instead of the default. Beyond that, if you wanted finer control, you could
look at having one-shot callbacks but I think that would be harder to
implement at the moment and I'm not sure they'd be as easy to use with the
standard canvas renderer.

Julian
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