Calling setDebugId() does not set given id to client side's element with out page reload

[peterl1084]

When calling setDebugId from for example button's click listener after first page load has already occured, the debug id will not be set to given component even if component.requestRepaint() is called.

Button button = new Button("Test");
button.addListener(new Button.ClickListener() {
   button.setDebugId("test");
});

Given debug id will only be set after page is reloaded.

[Matti Tahvonen]

Hi,

To make the current terminal implementation support identifiers that are changed of the fly, would require quite radical changes to the implementation of the debug ids (to both client and server side). Unless there is a really good use case for this feature, I'd not implement this.

I made documentation of the debug id to bring this up in [18416].

PS. I spotted the forum discussion that made this ticket appear. In case you want to reference other (visible) components on the client side, you should use addAttribute(String, Paintable) instead of using debug identifier. An example usage in the window: http://dev.vaadin.com/browser/versions/6.5/src/com/vaadin/ui/Window.java#L579 http://dev.vaadin.com/browser/versions/6.5/src/com/vaadin/terminal/gwt/client/ui/VView.java#L427

cheers, matti