[Building Sakai] PDA version of YAFT

[Steve Swinsburg]

I'm considering upgrading Profile2 to the later versions of Wicket, if
possible. I'll try again without the iframe when thats done.

cheers,
Steve


On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Charles Severance <csev at umich.edu> wrote:

>
> On Feb 13, 2013, at 8:19 PM, Steve Swinsburg wrote:
>
> As for Wicket tools, I thought that was fixed, or are they being ignored?
> and going back to the iframe by default? Seems to work ok in 2.9 and trunk?
>
>
> We tried mightily to make it work - but there was some kind of URL munging
> that was happening that was inside of the Wicket code that made it so that
> we could not reliably predict when we were dealing with a page or ajax by
> looking only at the URL.   We got to 95% but never got to perfect.   We
> found rules that Wicket mostly followed when forming URLs for various
> purposes - but then it inexplicably broke its own rules from time to time -
> and it was not profile2 code.   So we punted.  :(
>
> You can see in this file:
>
>
> https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/portal/trunk/portal-impl/impl/src/java/org/sakaiproject/portal/charon/handlers/PDAHandler.java
>
> This line:
>
> 	private static final String IFRAME_SUPPRESS_DEFAULT = ":all:sakai.profile2:sakai.synoptic.messagecenter:sakai.sitestats:sakai.sitestats.admin";
>
> That defaults profile2 to be rendered in an iframe in the 2.9 PDA portal
> by default.
>
> This will bring back memories of how hard we tried:
>
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-22285
>
> I always felt that if we dug into Wicket a tiny bit, we could have made it
> work - but it seemed like there were other things that were higher priority
> getting 2.9 done.
>
> /Chuck
>
>
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