[CLK-106] Add PageLink control

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: core
• Environment: Target Click 0.21
• Assignee: Malcolm Edgar
• Reporter: Stephen Haberman
• Created: 18/Jun/06 12:47
• Updated: 11/Sep/06 03:39
• Resolved: 07/Jul/06 03:37

Description

Add a PageLink control

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From Stephens "click hacks" email:

6. Link control

I'm not a fan of the ActionLink idiom. I understand the whole listener thing
is type-safe and all that, and both Tapestry and Click make it "okay", but
having a user be on "Employees", and click "Employee Sue", the browser hits
"/employees.htm", but then behind the scenes, our listener forwards/serves
out "/employee.htm" while the user's browser says "/employees.htm", just
seems, well, odd. So, instead we've developed a fairly type-safe way of
doing links, but making the decision about where the user should go at
render time instead of next-click listener time.

The basic idiom is:

Link l = new Link("ClientLink", "name", ClientPage.class);
l.addParameter(this.client);
l.toString()
->
<a id="clientPage_client5" href="/client.htm?client=5">theClientsName</a>