[CAUSEWAY-497] Allow service actions to be rendered as contributed collections or as contributed properties.

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: viewer-wicket-1.2.0, core-1.2.0
• Fix Version/s: viewer-wicket-1.3.0, core-1.3.0
• Component/s: Core, Viewer Wicket
• Assignee: Daniel Keir Haywood
• Reporter: Daniel Keir Haywood
• Created: 16/Aug/13 16:54
• Updated: 25/Oct/13 08:39
• Resolved: 19/Aug/13 15:51

Description

Thus:

a non-void service action that accepts a single argument of the entity type is rendered as a property if it returns a scalar, or a collection if it returns a list<T>.

To prevent the service action from being contributed, use @NotContributed annotation, which is extended to:

@NotContributed ... not contributed at all
@NotContributed(As.ACTION) .... but is contributed as a property/collection (dependent on return type)
@NoContributed(As.ASSOCIATION) .... but is contributed as an action

Contributed collections are implicitly eagerly rendered.
Contributed properties can be hidden from tables by annotating the service action with @Hidden(where=ALL_TABLES), in the usual fashion.

Issue Links

• duplicates: CAUSEWAY-440 Contributed collections to allow decoupling