[Catalyst] Solved (mostly) the display problem, still fighting for FormBuilder

[Joe Landman]

In my zeal to code up the application I managed to delete the RenderView
bit.  You know, the one line that reads:

	sub end : ActionClass('RenderView') {}

in the root controller.

Replacing that immediately fixed the display problem, though now I am
back to the FormBuilder issue.  I am having a problem with some of the
documentation (will file a bug against what I found).  The docs suggest
something that looks like this (in TT, I hand converted this to Mason).

 [% FOREACH field IN form.fields %]
        <div id="[%- field.name -%]">
          <div class="label">
            [% field.required
                  ? qq(<span class="required">$field.label</span>)
                  : field.label
            %]
          </div>

This presumes that $c->form->fields is the correct array ref to iterate
over.  As I have discovered, it is not.  It is $c->form->fieldrefs.  So
my Mason code looks something like this:

	% foreach $field (keys %{$form->{fieldrefs}})
	% {
  	  <% $field |h %>
	% }

and it spit out my username and password fields quite nicely.  By
Data::Dumping the form, I saw this:

> 'fieldrefs' => {
>                                   'password' => bless( {
>                                                          '_cache' => {
>                                                                        'type' => 'text'
>                                                                      },
>                                                          'cleanopts' => 1,
>                                                          'selectname' => 1,
>                                                          'sticky' => 1,
>                                                          'name' => 'password',
>                                                          '_form' => $VAR1,
>                                                          'selectnum' => 5
>                                                        }, 'CGI::FormBuilder::Field::text' ),
>                                   'username' => bless( {
>                                                          '_cache' => {
>                                                                        'type' => 'text'
>                                                                      },
>                                                          'cleanopts' => 1,
>                                                          'submit' => 'Login',
>                                                          'name' => 'username',
>                                                          'size' => '40',
>                                                          'password' => $VAR1->{'fieldopts'}{'username'}{'password'},
>                                                          'selectname' => 1,
>                                                          'sticky' => 1,
>                                                          'required' => '1',
>                                                          '_form' => $VAR1,
>                                                          'label' => 'User name',
>                                                          'type' => 'text',
>                                                          'selectnum' => 5
>                                                        }, 'CGI::FormBuilder::Field::text' )

which suggests that the correct dereference for the [%- field.name -%]
like things is actually

	$form->{fieldrefs}->{$field}->{name}

Has anyone else seen this?  Or does TT work in some magical other manner
so it hides all of this from us?

Where I am now is that a call to $form->render  doesn't seem to do much.
 Will work on it some more, I am assuming I have some additional pilot
error here as well.

Thanks.


-- 
Joe Landman
landman |at| scalableinformatics |dot| com