Configuration XML question...

[Gavin Baumanis]

Hi again,

This is a quick on -honest!

In the event handler you have the following;

<view-page name="XXX" />

and then there is a page-views XML node.

I am assuming there is something I am missing... though initially it just seems like a redundant level of abstraction.

My question is why?

As always - thanks in advance!

- Gavin.

[Dave Shuck]

They are not 1-to-1.  <page-view/> defines a view that can be used (and resused) throughout your application.  <view-page/> is simply a declaration that you are going to use that defined page.

Additionally, however, in most Mach-II applications that I wrote in recent years, I almost never actually used a single <page-view /> declaration thanks to the Pattern View Loader:  http://trac.mach-ii.com/machii/wiki/MachII1.8SpecificationViewLoaders

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[Peter J. Farrell]

Dave Shuck said the following on 05/13/2013 05:33 PM:

> Additionally, however, in most Mach-II applications that I wrote in
> recent years, I almost never actually used a single <page-view />
> declaration thanks to the Pattern View Loader:
> http://trac.mach-ii.com/machii/wiki/MachII1.8SpecificationViewLoaders

FYI, Trac will be shut down shortly. We've moved ALL documentation to
our GitHub wiki:

https://github.com/Mach-II/Mach-II-Framework/wiki/View-Loaders

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[Gavin Baumanis]

Hi and thanks Dave,

Thanks for the information on View Loaders.

"I" am not a fan of convention-based coding...

I like to see what it is happening without ambiguity / having to work it out.

Mind you in this case it is a really easy "get" - so perhaps that's nothing worry about!

As for your statement that they're not 1 for 1...

I actually started writing a rebuttal - of how they are 1 for 1.

every page-view has a hard and fast link to view-page.

The fact that you can use page-view multiple times - doesn't make it not 1 for 1.

But then it finally dawned on me....

The benefit comes with refactoring.

In that you can alter the view-page, in one place - and all the view-page declarations (regardless of how many) get the new file and or path.

And with that thinking in mind, the view-loader makes really good sense to me, too....

Damn you Mach-II.... stop making so much sense!

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