Is it possible to expose and use ids when layouts are shared?

[vlsi]

Use case: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19589694/miglayout-set-equal-column-width-in-nested-panels-with-layoutmanagers

What if "nested" layout could expose its component and sizegroup ids to the parent layout?

In other words, if the children component is JLabel + JTextField, then the nested layout could expose label and field size groups.

Then the outer layout could somehow connect inner's sizegroup with its own ones.
For instance:

inner1; // panel with MigLayout, label1: textfield1
inner2; // panel with MigLayout, label2: textfield2

outer.add(inner1, "sizegroupmap outerlabel=child.label");
outer.add(inner2, "sizegroupmap outerlabel=child.label");

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So far it looks like MigLayout requires all the individual elements (e.g. JTextField) to be put into a single layout grid. Are there best practices for (not?) using nested layouts?

[mikaelgrev]

I have thought about it a lot and there are multiple possible solutions. But unfortunately I'm not in a position right now to put the needed effort to implement this.

[vlsi]

Oh, I see.

Am I right it is better to refrain from creating components like JLabel+JTextField? (e.g. https://github.com/apache/jmeter/blob/master/src/jorphan/src/main/java/org/apache/jorphan/gui/JLabeledTextField.java#L42-L47 )