Is ViewstateAdapter needed with Sideview Utils?

[Lowell]

Is the usage of the ViewstateAdapter module needed or recommended for view that use the Sideview Utils modules?

I did a quick search and didn't find any uses of ViewstateAdapter in any of the examples:

fgrep  ViewstateAdapter ~/etc/apps/sideview_utils/default/data/ui/views/*.xml

No matches. I'm guessing that means that we don't need this module?

[sideview · Accepted solution]

Nope, you dont need it. ViewStateAdapter shows up a lot because it gets used by the Simplified XML internally, and thus when people begin their foray into Advanced XML by converting a view from the Simplified XML, that and a bunch of other cruft gets carried along with it.

You can safely remove it. For the record what it does is look for information that a HiddenSavedSearch module upstream might have written into the context. If it's there, and basically if that saved search has a viewstate associated with it, it will reconstitute some of the keys from that viewstate. like chart type and stackmode and things like that.

[Lowell]

Good to know. This was very helpful, thanks!