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["Francis J. Lacoste" <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On November 17, 2009, Gary Poster wrote:
> On Nov 16, 2009, at 6:06 PM, Francis J. Lacoste wrote:
> > Hi Leonard,
> 
> ...
> 
> > That should return a JSON dictionary containing two keys: subscribers
> > containing the result of the +subscriber-porlets view and count
> > containing the result of the +subscribers-count view.
> >
> > That removes the wiring that has to be done now server side to map these
> > existing views to the HTML representation of fields, removes the
> > problematic limitation of having only HTML representation and allows us
> > to retrieve efficiently all the fragments we need on the page.
> 
> My concern is that some portlet views may not work like this if they do
>  tricks.  For instance, if they look closely at the request, they will
>  probably fall over because they will be called in a way they did not
>  expect.
> 
> If we simply add that as a caveat, maybe that is sufficient.  That makes me
>  a bit uncomfortable, but I'm not sure, and have to go do Python 2.5 ec2
>  things. :-)
> 

Yeah, that is a caveat, fortunately, off the top of my head, I don't know of 
any purely rendering views that would have this problem. So I think that's 
going to work 99.9% of the time (at least).

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Francis J. Lacoste
francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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