On Jan 11, 2013 1:14 PM, "Eric Wittmann" <eric.wittmann@redhat.com> wrote:

No worries, Lincoln.  Good luck with the Forge stuff. :)

As for the remaining attribute issue, I came up with an acceptable workaround.  As I mentioned in the pull request, I want the live preview/templates to be as functional as possible, including the ability to navigate around the different pages (statically when that makes sense - e.g. a primary nav bar).  So I want to have "href" attributes that work in the templates.  At the same time, I want the application to have the right value set on the href.

Since the template code favors attributes in the template (and I agree it almost always should!) I figured I had two options.  Either modify the templating code to *sometimes* prefer widget attributes over template attributes, or else find a way to remove the href attributes from the template.

I thought about a "data-exclude-attributes" attribute in the template, but that didn't feel right.

Instead, I simply removed all the hrefs from my template and replaced them with a tiny bit of on-document-load javascript that inserts them. This way, when the file is used as an Errai template, there's no 'href' attribute to get in the way.  At the same time, when viewed directly in the browser, the templates still appear to have valid hrefs (because they get added by my little bit of JS code).

Seems like a reasonable workaround, assuming there aren't too many static links.  And I think in my applications there won't be too many.

-Eric


On 01/11/2013 12:22 PM, Lincoln Baxter wrote:

Hey Eric,

Thanks for getting in touch!

I'm sorry it took me so long to respond, I've been in fire fighting mode trying to get Forge ready for our big team meeting.

I've also copied my preferred email address and the errai-dev list, which are two places that will probably get a faster response from me, since I don't always have access to the VPN :)

The issue has already been resolved, but I agree with all of your changes. The attribute "whacking" can be problematic if you actually want to go the "other way."

Sorry again for the late reply. Feel free to email me personally (at home) and copy the dev list for best results :)

Thanks!
~Lincoln

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Wittmann" <eric.wittmann@redhat.com>
To: "Lincoln Baxter" <lbaxter@redhat.com>, jfuerth@redhat.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2013 1:31:03 PM
Subject: Errai navigation + templating discussion

Hey Lincoln.  I'm in the JBoss middleware group, specifically working on
the Overlord project.  One of my responsibilities is producing a couple
of UI applications.  To that end, I've been digging Errai and hope to
contribute back based on my project needs.

Ok, that's out of the way.  :)  I've been discussing a couple of Errai 3
features with Jonathan (via github pull request comments :)).  One of
these is a new injectable Transition widget in errai-navigation.  You
can see the pull request here:

    https://github.com/errai/errai/pull/27

The goal was to really take out a lot of the boilerplate for the simple
case of static hyperlinks from one @Page to another.

I think it works well except for one small issue (documented in the
"What's Missing" section of the pull request).

Jonathan mentioned that you might have some thoughts about the
templating issue, as it relates to attribute priority.

Any thoughts?  I'd like the href to be preserved in this case because I
would like the template's href to point to some local HTML file while
the live application uses the proper history token as the href.

Thanks!

-Eric