[TAPESTRY-2235] Annotation for managing a property as the page activation context

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 5.0.11
• Fix Version/s: 5.0.14
• Component/s: tapestry-core
• Assignee: Igor Drobiazko
• Reporter: Howard Lewis Ship
• Created: 05/Mar/08 01:48
• Updated: 19/Jun/08 17:56
• Resolved: 10/Jun/08 22:01

Description

A very common idiom is to have a page that exists to view/edit/create an entity, and to store the entity as the page activation context (relying on a ValueEncoder to extract the primary key as the value in the URL). Example code:

public class ShowAccount
{
@GenerateAccessors
private Account _account;

void onActivate(Account account)

{ _account = account; }

Object onPassivate()

{ return _account; }

}

It seems that these two methods could be generated automatically in some way, i.e.

public class ShowAccount
{
@GenerateAccessors
@PageActivationContext
private Account _account;
}