Temp hack for rendering an exception response to a partial page update

ng-appserver/src/main/java/ng/appserver/NGApplication.java

@@ -503,6 +503,12 @@ protected NGActionResults handlePageRestorationException( final NGPageRestoratio
 	 */
 	public NGActionResults exceptionResponse( final Throwable throwable, final NGContext context ) {
 
+		// FIXME: The originating context might have been an Ajax request, meaning the exception page won't render squat, which isn't helpful.
+		// We should(a) not render the exception pace in the original context where the exception happened and/or (b) have a better,
+		// more generic mechanism to ignore the context's updateContainers (in other words, we need a better way to control rendering from the server side)
+		// Hugi 2024-10-09
+		context.forceFullUpdate = true;
+
 		final boolean isDevelopmentMode = isDevelopmentMode();
 
 		// If we're in development mode, we want to show some extra nice debugging information (sources, caches, context info etc.)

ng-appserver/src/main/java/ng/appserver/NGContext.java

@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ public String targetedUpdateContainerID() {
 		return request().headerForKey( "x-updatecontainerid" );
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * FIXME: Yet another temporary testhack while we experiment with methods to control partial page updates on the server side // Hugi 2024-10-09
+	 */
+	public boolean forceFullUpdate;
+
 	/**
 	 * The request that initiated the creation of this context
 	 */

ng-appserver/src/main/java/ng/appserver/elements/NGDynamicGroup.java

@@ -148,7 +148,13 @@ private static List<NGElement> childrenFromTemplate( final NGElement contentTemp
 	 */
 	private static boolean shouldAppendToResponseInContext( final NGContext context ) {
 
+		// FIXME: Dont' forget; this is a temporary reprieve // Hugi 2024-10-09
+		if( context.forceFullUpdate ) {
+			return true;
+		}
+
 		// The list of containers to update is passed in to the request as a header
+		// FIXME: Get this from the context (or wherever we eventually decide to store response generation parameters) // Hugi 2024-10-09
 		final List<String> containerIDsToUpdate = context.request().headersForKey( "x-updatecontainerid" );
 
 		// If no containers are specified, we're doing a full page render, so always perform appendToResponse()