[Seaside] [Mewa & Seaside Application]

[Avi Bryant]

On May 15, 2004, at 11:38 AM, German Arduino wrote:

> I hope all the previous be "understandable".

Well, I can't say I followed it completely.  But as for this comment:

> I don't wants to violate the MVC paradigm writing renderings in the 
> Model, but can't figure out how to solve this question.

I think it's fine to put render methods on domain objects.  Just mark 
them (with a category name, say) as being part of the UI rather than 
part of the model.  This often makes your code more flexible and less 
coupled, not the opposite, because you can take better advantage of 
polymorphism.  It doesn't stop you from having multiple views of the 
same data - just implement multiple render methods with different 
selectors.

If you really can't stand the idea, you can use a visitor-like double 
dispatch to separate things out, but that really shouldn't be 
necessary... not in Smalltalk, anyway.

Avi