[Seaside] Tasks and reusing components

[radoslav hodnicak]

Ah, children! Of course!

The cause of, and the solution to all seaside's problems ;-)

Thanks, it works now

Rado

On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Lukas Renggli wrote:

> Thank you for the script. This helped me to quickly reproduce and
> understand the problem.
>
> The thing is that Seaside 2.8 and 3.0 do only backtrack components
> that are in the render tree. Earlier versions of Seaside backtracked
> all components that were ever instantiated (visible or not). This
> considerably increased memory consumption and load because all
> components were cached for a long time and iterated and copied with
> every request.
>
>> From Seaside 2.8 on we limited the backtracking to visible components
> in the render tree. This is almost always correct, except when you
> reuse components in tasks. Since this is not commonly done, we decided
> to accept that. Congratulation, you are the first one to discover it
> :-)
>
> The behavior can be easily fixed by adding the components that you
> store to the render tree, so that Seaside backtracks them even if they
> are not visible. Just return them as children from your task:
>
> TaskComponentTestTask>>children
> 	^ Array with: component1 with: component2
>
> This behavior is documented and tested in WADelegationFunctionalTest,
> WADelegationTask and WAFlowDelegationTask.
>
> Hope this helps and explains the behavior.
>
> Lukas
>
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