[Seaside] WATask, anyone?

[Robert Sirois]

I feel like this is said a lot on this mailing list, but I'm a huge proponent of it. Announcements ftw.

WATask isn't really a state machine. It's more like a wizard or a subroutine (at least in my brain hehe).

RS

> Subject: Re: [Seaside] WATask, anyone?
> From: mac.hive at me.com
> Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 10:23:33 -0400
> To: seaside at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> 
> 
> On Sep 16, 2012, at 9:53 AM, Philippe Marschall wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 4:31 PM, SebastianHC
> > <sebastian_heidbrink at yahoo.de> wrote:
> >> Hi!
> >> 
> >> I'm currently starting a new project and it seems like Pharo and Seaside are
> >> part of it.
> >> 
> >> I follow the community and did some prototyping since the early beginnings
> >> of Seaside.
> >> 
> >> But there's one thing I'm really wondering about!
> >> Why is WATask so rearly used and mentioned?
> > 
> > Maybe because you can get the same functionality with a method or
> > block and #call: without having to create a class.
> > 
> 
>   I used a WATask to handle the login logic for www.practicemusic.com, but after login all of the other views are shown with a call:, like this; 
> 
> go
> 	| user component |
> 	self call: self userLoginView.
> 	(self userLoginView user) notNil  
> 		ifTrue: [ 
> 			component := self firstComponentToDisplayForUser: self userLoginView user.
> 			[ component notNil ]
> 				whileTrue: [ 
> 					self call: component.
> 					component := component nextComponentToBeDisplayed ] ]
> 
> I'll have to think about whether I could use WATask for some sophisticated workflow/notification processing in my system.
> 
> Regards, 
> 
>   Larry Kellogg
> 
> 
> 
> > Cheers
> > Philippe
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