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Subject: RE: recursively calling a flowscript function
From: "Kirn Khaira" <kirnk () tradebytes ! com>
Date: 2007-01-31 17:23:11
Message-ID: C11098343002424FA025A85681E1218A9C4AD9 () webmail ! tradebytes ! com
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That does help. I was actually thinking of using a while loop while I
was initially creating that function so I'll go back and try
implementing it using the loop. Thanks for the reply Jason.
Kirn
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Johnston [mailto:cocoon@lojjic.net]
Sent: January 30, 2007 5:12 PM
To: users@cocoon.apache.org
Subject: Re: recursively calling a flowscript function
Kirn Khaira wrote:
> I have a flowscript function that takes in start and end parameters
and
> creates a form that includes a previous and next button on the form
> page. After the form has been submitted, with either a next submit
call
> or previous submit call, it calls itself with new values for the start
> and end parameters. Basically the function looks like this:
>
>
>
> function myForm(start, end)
> {
> // get a record list from an hsql query using the start
and
> end values
> var model = pu.processToDOM(...);
> var form = new Form(model.getDocumentElement());
>
> // set the start and end form variables...
>
> form.showForm(...);
>
> // after submit do some calculations on the start and end
> values and call this function again
>
> myForm(newStart,newEnd);
> }
>
> My question is, is this the best way to do this? Is this too memory
> intensive?
The Rhino JavaScript interpreter does tail call optimization, so there's
nothing inherently memory-wasting about recursively calling the function
if the recursive call is the last thing in the function.
But, your example will create a whole new Form object instance for each
iteration, which may not be what you want, and will suck up memory each
time through.
Typically I just use a while-loop when I want to display the same form
again and again, using the same Form instance...
function myForm()
{
// default start and end values:
var start = 0;
var end = 25;
var form = new Form(...);
var finished = false;
while(!finished) {
form.showForm(...);
// set new start and end as appropriate
start = ...;
end = ...;
if(...) finished = true; //exit condition
}
//show confirmation screen or whatever
}
Hope that helps
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