[Catalyst] automatic form generation based on data models

[Will Hawes]

A lot of people seem to be using HTML::Widget for forms these days, but 
as far as I'm aware no module currently exists that will generate 
HTML::Widget forms from the model automatically.

Probably 
http://search.cpan.org/~jrobinson/DBIx-Class-WebForm/lib/DBIx/Class/WebForm.pm 
is more along the lines of what you're looking for.

marcus baker wrote:

> The one thing about Django that keeps them from looking anywhere else
> is it's ability to create data-editing forms on the fly based on the
> data model.  In an attempt to get them to consider Catalyst a little
> more, I was wondering if Catalyst has this kind of capability
> anywhere... Is this something I should take to the CDBI/DBIxC lists
> specifically?
> 
> Thanks
> -Marcus