[jbossseam-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Created: (JBSEAM-675) Improve Pages API; Add generic Page properties / meta-data

[Ryan Dewell (JIRA)]

Improve Pages API;   Add generic Page properties / meta-data
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                 Key: JBSEAM-675
                 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBSEAM-675
             Project: JBoss Seam
          Issue Type: Feature Request
          Components: Core
            Reporter: Ryan Dewell
            Priority: Minor


Ideas for getting the Page and Pages to be more useful to other parts of the application.  

Two ways to get there:

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1. Add a getAllPages() or getPages() to Pages.java.  Just returns all of the Page definitions / objects that are defined for the current web-app.

2. Generic Page-level properties or attributes:

<page....>
  <property name="Type" value="UsedFor"/>
</page>

Then accessing that from a Page object obtained from Pages:

String value = page.getProperty(String name)
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With these two additions, elsewhere in my application I could now 1) iterate over all of the defined Page's using getPages(), 2) figure out which Page has a property of a given value 3) now know the view-id to construct a URL for.   Basically using it to look up a view id in an application controlled way.

This is one use case, but maybe there are more that would benefit from these 2 additions.


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