[Catalyst] HTML::Widget field name translation in MoreFewer?

[Carl Franks]

Simon,

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Carl,

I've written a Catalyst controller class called MoreFewer (for
displaying multiple rows of child data, eg, authors of a book). I'm
trying to use HTML::Widget there, and I've realized that it's not quite
sufficient for what I need. A field called 'author_last_name_3' should
use the method 'last_name' to read its value from the data object, so
the field names are not the same as the widget names.

I can almost do it with custom filters, but I can't pass them parameters
during their creation. Since each filter has to be using a different
index, I can't just use a generic class. I'd like to be able to
initialize a filter with a coderef.

Can you give me some advice on the best way of accomplishing this in
HTML::Widget?

Thanks,
Simon

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