[TAP5-1990] Link interface should be more fluid to allow setting of anchor, etc., more concisely

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 5.4
• Assignee: Howard Lewis Ship
• Reporter: Angelo Chen
• Created: 18/Aug/12 14:14
• Updated: 25/Jul/13 20:37
• Resolved: 25/Jul/13 20:37

Description

first, the use case:

You might be in a situation adding Backbonejs router to your existing Tapestry5 app, you got one like this:

Object onActivate(String code, String entry); // localhost:8080/mypage/0001/e001

and you would like to redirect this to your backbonejs version which is: localhost:8080/mypage/0001#e001

you can do it now by:

Object onActivate(String code, String entry) {
Link lnk = renderLinkSource.createPageRenderLinkWithContext(Mypage.class, code);
lnk.setAnchor(entry);
return lnk
}

if setAnchor returns Link instead of void, then it can be simplified to:

Object onActivate(String code, String entry) {
return renderLinkSource.createPageRenderLinkWithContext(Mypage.class, code).setAnchor(entry);
}