FLUID-958: Create global "external contract" for components with respect to "model state" and rendering therefrom

Description

In order to arrange more advanced cooperation between components and "component fragments" with regards render and model state, we need to draw up external contracts that participating components will enjoy. A particular and immediate example requirement is that of "undo" functionality - it should be possible to "decorate" an arbitrary component or selection of components with "undo-ability" at both a visual and functional level, part of which requirement is expressed by FLUID-780, "undo for individual InlineEdit" component.

Important requirements are that i) the state ("model") of each component is isolable and enjoys "reasonable" semantics, and that ii) an overal "re-rendering" of each participating component can be triggered in a uniform way given updates to this state.

Comments

• Antranig Basman commented 2008-07-22T19:26:40.000-0400

  A wiki housing for documentation and thoughts on this contract is now at http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Component+Model+Interactions+and+API

• Antranig Basman commented 2008-07-31T14:42:50.000-0400

  Some of these features can now be seen in draft within the inline-edit component and its undo add-on - in the form of the modelFirer, the render() method and the general model-driven idiom.

• Antranig Basman commented 2009-01-19T21:18:59.000-0500

  Informally, these concepts of a "model for models" have been generally agreed, but have not yet seen much exposure outside InlineEdit. Should review on delivery of final release.

• Colin Clark commented 2010-03-30T18:58:39.000-0400

  We'll address a portion of this 1.3 when we promote Engage's createRendererFunction() to Infusion, and the rest will be addressed by Infusion 1.5

• Justin Obara commented 2010-10-04T15:39:44.996-0400

  "Bug Parade Infusion 1.3"

• Antranig Basman commented 2011-03-25T00:07:40.174-0400

  With the work on "grades" arriving in the 1.4 framework, in particular "modelComponent" and "rendererComponent", this nearly 3-yr-old JIRA may finally be closed.