Re: Deferred updates

All,

Just an observation from an end user.

I have never really understood the need for deferred updates - is it still
required with modern technologies (browsers)? It seems like a premature
optimisation that should probably not be part of the specification (but
could still be within an implementation). Certainly from a declarative
programming point of view it seems strange to have to consider update
concurrency - e.g. a value was set via an <xf:setvalue .../> in one part of
the form which updates a value in the instance that is used in a
calculation elsewhere (possibly within the same user action). As a form
author it seems I have to worry about whether the new value has been
applied in time for the calculation - the outcome of which may affect
behaviour for the end user.

Mike

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 10:53 AM Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
wrote:

> "A deferred update for a model consists of examining each deferred update
> flag in the order of rebuild, recalculate, revalidate, and refresh, and
> for each that is set, clearing it and dispatching the appropriate event to
> the model (i.e. dispatch xforms-rebuild for a rebuild flag, and so on)."
> https://www.w3.org/community/xformsusers/wiki/XForms_2.0#Deferred_Updates
>
> Is there a purpose to dispatching the appropriate event, rather than just
> doing the rebuild or whatever?
>
> Steven
>
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