[Solar-talk] closing: page controller & action, again

[Paul M Jones]

On Jul 5, 2007, at 8:25 AM, Rodrigo Moraes wrote:

> Paul and everybody,
> After last night wonderings, I woke up and thought that it is ok that
> the page controller extract the action from a Uri_Action object -
> passed or built. This allows it to be used as a standalone object (I
> didn't knew it was used in standalone mode; it seems it is).

Yes, that is exactly the point -- I want the page-controller to be  
independent of the front-controller as much as possible.  It should  
be (relatively) easy to completely replace the the front-controller,  
or not use one at all, with respect to the page controller.

> Then the front controller mappings to actions should be done by
> building a "fake" uri with the action name in the first path. I've
> done this some times, but I was wondering if manipulating the uri was
> the best strategy to talk to the page controller (shifting/unshifting
> the uri path always seems tricky to me :).

Yeah, the page-controller expects a URI of some sort: string,  
Solar_Uri*, etc.  That way we can support a huge number of possible  
inputs in their "natural" format (URIs).


> As it is also used independently of the front controller (not by me,
> he! :), things change a lot and it seems that this is indeed a good
> option to tell it which action to execute.

It makes me feel good to know that someone else has arrived at the  
same conclusion as I did; thank you for taking the time to work  
through this and confirm my opinion separately.  :-)




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