Model/View separation in ESME

[Darren Hague]

A suggestion for model-view separation: I think that Comet render() methods should return JSON, which can be rendered to HTML by the client. The client HTML should contain a template, eg.

<table class="messages">
<!-- This is the template for a single message -->
<tr id="esme.message" style="visibility:hidden">
<td id="esme.message.body">This is a test message</td>
<td id="esme.message.tags">tag1, tag2</td>
<td id="esme.message.from">dhague</td>
</tr>
<!-- end template -->
</table>

The client side event handler which reacts to the comet.render() would then just parse the JSON, insert it into a copy of the template, and then add that copy below the template itself in the DOM, with visibility set to "visible".

This approach keeps all of the Comet-related markup in the client HTML, and a designer needs only to toggle style="visibility:hidden" to style="visibility:visible" to see how a message would look.

Cheers,
Darren

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darren...@fortybeans.com

[David Pollak]

Will do

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[Hirsch, Richard]

This would also help for those wishing to creating their own corporate skins

By the way, when do we want to shift these conversations to the apache esme-dev mailing list. It is already up and running.

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[David Pollak]

Now... also we should announce/invite people to the new mailing list.

[Hirsch, Richard]

Now pushing the apache mailing list internally as well

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[Hirsch, Richard]

Just in case, you didn't notice it. We got a technical comment about our REST-API http://code.google.com/p/esmeproject/wiki/REST_API_Documantation (look at the bottom)

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