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grapefrukt

05 Nov, 2009 01:53 PM

Before I had a view class, ImageStrip and a corresponding ImageStripMediator that worked just fine.
Now I need some slightly different behaviors in two places, so I made to subclasses of ImageStrip: KeyedImageStrip and BackgroundImageStrip and corresponding mediators for them.

I tried letting the two new mediators subclass ImageStripMediator since this has code I want to use. But since this is set up to be injected with a ImageStrip things start to get hairy:

 Error: Injector is missing a rule to handle injection into target [object KeyedImageStripMediator]. Target dependency: se.psweb.kromaki.view.menu::ImageStrip

So, how do I use subclasses of a view (with mediator) and have mediators for those too?
And if this is completely backwards, how should I do it?

1. 1 Posted by System on 05 Nov, 2009 02:29 PM

   

   An internal ticket was created for this discussion

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2. Support Staff 2 Posted by Joel Hooks on 05 Nov, 2009 02:41 PM

   

   Perhaps using setter injection might be a better route. Then you could override the setter and [Inject(name="whatever")] on the method setting the protected value.

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3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Shaun Smith on 05 Nov, 2009 02:57 PM

   

   If your KeyedImageStripMediator depends on ImageStrip, you can pass it into injectViewAs when calling mapView(), like so:

   mapView(KeyedImageStrip, ImageStripMediator, ImageStrip);

   This will create an ImageStripMediator when a KeyedImageStrip lands on stage, but it will inject the KeyedImageStrip as an ImageStrip (which is what your Mediator actually depends on).

   Does that help at all?

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4. 4 Posted by grapefrukt on 05 Nov, 2009 03:29 PM

   

   I temporarily sidestepped the issue by duplicating the code from ImageStripMediator in the two new mediators. It was just a line or two, still, not very pretty. Sadly, with the way my current deadline is looming it'll have to stay that way until I've got some more tinkering time.

   But I think this could be solved with either method, Joels is more tailored to my specific need but i think Shauns is a bit less magical ;)

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5. Support Staff 5 Posted by Shaun Smith on 07 Dec, 2009 02:28 PM

   

   Hi Grapefrukt,

   I believe that:

   mapView(KeyedImageStrip, ImageStripMediator, ImageStrip);

   would be the best solution to this problem. I'm going to close this issue for now, but please feel free to re-open it if you feel the answer to be dis-satisfactory.

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6. Shaun Smith closed this discussion on 07 Dec, 2009 02:28 PM.

7. Support Staff 6 Posted by Shaun Smith on 11 Dec, 2009 08:55 PM

   

   Actually, I think I misunderstood the core issue here. See response to:

   http://knowledge.robotlegs.org/discussions/questions/21-subclassing...

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