[Catalyst] Re: Reaction Widgets questions

[Matt S Trout]

On 25 Jan 2007, at 12:36, Jonas Alves wrote:

>
>
> On 17/01/07, Matt S Trout <dbix-class at trout.me.uk> wrote:
> On 16 Jan 2007, at 17:07, Jonas Alves wrote:
> > As for a controller that limits visible attributes, are you wanting
> > to do this for the listview or globally?
> >
> > Imagine that i have 2 forms for the same table. One with all the
> > fields and another with just some of them. What came to me was
> > define another schema class to the same table but just with some of
> > the attributes defined. But that doesn't seem the best aproach...
> > But creating new action classes that just differ in the attributtes
> > defined doesn't seem a better way. Maybe if I could pass the fields
> > to the class when I push it to the viewport. Something like:
>
> Assuming the action can be committed without the additional fields,
> just subclass the Action class and override parameter_attributes to
> only return the attributes you want visible, then pass a copy of that
> action to the ViewPort instead.
>
> It's not perfect, but it works pretty well for me so far so I'm
> punting on a better solution until we've got a better idea what we
> need out of it.
>
> Thanks Matt. I think i will stick with that.
> How about javascript and ajax form validation in Reaction. Is that  
> on the pipeline?

Oh hell yes. Needs a couple bits of infrastructure to do it properly,  
but it's definitely coming :)
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