widget parsing currently requires a parent

[dylan]

The current parsing of widgets needs some refactoring as it currently requires a parent node. I have a patch checked into webui/widgets/Parse.js, but it breaks other portions of the widget parsing system, especially programmatically added widgets, which needs cleanup on its own.

[alex]

Is there any movement on this? How will it affect the APIs that are exposed to widget users and authors?

[sjmiles]

Rearranged dojo.widget.Parse so the top level input fragment can be parsed as a widget.

I tested it against various invocations of createWidget. But there still might be something in Dylan's original warning.

If you want to have the old behavior, you should call

new dojo.widget.Parser().createSubComponents(frag, parentComp);

instead of

new dojo.widget.Parser().createComponents(frag, parentComp);

[(none)]

Milestone 0.3release deleted