[Chameleon] flaw in new MLT design?

[William Bronsema]

Hi Bart,

Sounds like you uncovered a good one. ;)

Can you please file a bug about it?

Thanks,
Bill


William Bronsema
Senior Applications Specialist
DM Solutions Group Inc.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: chameleon-bounces at lists.maptools.org [mailto:chameleon-
> bounces at lists.maptools.org] On Behalf Of Eijnden, B. van den (Bart)
> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 7:01 AM
> To: 'chameleon at lists.maptools.org'
> Subject: [Chameleon] flaw in new MLT design?
> 
> Hi list,
> 
> I think I have run into a flaw in the new MLT design.
> 
> If you make a widget which extends an existing widget, and the widget file
> contains MLT code, it seems impossible to get the text internationalized.
> 
> For instance, I have a widget called GeoservicesClearWFSFilter, which
> extends ClearWFSFilter. The right language file is read and put into the
> array, but the keys in the array are called GeoservicesClearWFSFilter
> ofcourse (the widget name).
> 
> My widget file is minimal:
> 
> include_once(CHAMELEON_PATH."/widgets/ClearWFSFilter/ClearWFSFilter.widget
> .p
> hp");
> 
> /**
>  * GeoservicesClearWFSFilter
>  */
> class GeoservicesClearWFSFilter extends ClearWFSFilter
> {
> }
> 
> But the ClearWFSFilter widget tries to read with a key named
> ClearWFSFilter,
> and therefore finds nothing in the MLT array:
> 
> $szNoFilterMessage = $this->moMLT->get( 'ClearWFSFilter', '1', 'There is
> no
> filter to clear.' );
> 
> The only solution I see for this is to use:
> 
> $szNoFilterMessage = $this->moMLT->get( $this->mszWidgetName, '1', 'There
> is
> no filter to clear.' );
> 
> Otherwise the MLT system cannot deal with widget inheritance .....
> 
> This will require quite some changes though in the Chameleon code base :-(
> .......
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Best regards,
> Bart
> 
> 
> 
> 
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