Re: [wsrp-interfaces] MarkupParams reuse in pbia()

I suspect we need to wordsmith section
6.1.11 (MarkupParams) a bit. It now says:

The MarkupParams
structure contains a set of fields needed for the Portlet to generate markup
that will enable the End-User to visualize the state of the Portlet. These
are also supplied to the interaction processing operations as they may
impact that processing (e.g. validNewModes)
and those operations are allowed to return markup and thereby avoid an
additional invocation.

The intent is to say that MarkupParams
collects fields focussed on markup generation, but that these are also
needed during action processing. A bit of wordsmithing could help make
this clearer. We should also clarify that supplying these to pbia() is
required.

Rich

Richard Jacob <>

08/25/05 10:24 AM

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[wsrp-interfaces] MarkupParams reuse
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Hi all,

I have a received some comments from developers concerning actions and
mode

window state passing.

There is a feel that the current definiton of pbia() and the MarkupParams

contained therein are not cleanly described.

- MarkupParams are not optional, but we (a little bit fuzzy) state that
in

6.1.11 (spec 1.0) that MarkupParams are for markup generation. In the case

of pbia() this refers to the optimization.

- windowsState and Mode are not optional and needed for pbia(). But we

don't say in the spec that the passed mode and window state is really the

current mode/state in which the action is invoked().

If optimizaton is used for pbia() to retrieve markup, how can mode/state
be

"passed" to the follow on render request on the producer side?
Do these

have (implicitly) to be the same? Is a switch of these between the phases

not possible?

Without the optimization it is.

So it seems we are quite fuzzy here and the question here is whether we

should be more explicit on the structure usages for the two phases.

Mit freundlichen Gruessen / best regards,

        Richard Jacob

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