[html-formfu] HTML::FormFu::Element::DBIC::Select for review

[Zbigniew Lukasiak]

Hi Mario,

Only after some thinking I understood your approach - instead of
building the options at the creation time you build them just before
they are needed - i.e. at the process time.  That's a clever work
around the problems that I was writing in my previous email. The only
question is if calling process is obligatory, for now I don't see why
it should not.  What I would change there is putting the Catalyst
context on the stash - I would put there the DBIC schema instead - and
have it independent from Catalyst.

Just one correction HTML::Widget::DBIC is in no way related to
Catalyst Action Controllers - it is completely independent from
Catalyst and it does use a config for it's options.

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Zbyszek

On 9/13/07, Mario Minati <mario.minati at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 September 2007 15:41:29 Zbigniew Lukasiak wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > Have you had a look at
> > http://search.cpan.org/~zby/HTML-Widget-DBIC-0.03/lib/HTML/Widget/DBIC.pm
> > ?  It was solving a similar problem for HTML::Widget.  Granted it is a
> > bit experimental.
> >
> > I am planning to port it to FormFu.
> >
> > Does your version work only in Catalyst environment?
>
> What you did in that module is very smotth connected with the Action
> Controller. What I tried in my module is to follow Carls config file
> approach, which I like very much.
>
> It would be good to combine each ways to a common way handling that stuff. And
> the way Carl is trying to use the information from the DBIC could be a very
> elegant soultion in form automatism, I could also provide solutions for the
> DBIC stuff that we are needing.
>
> The second thing Carl was suggesting a few days ago, to create a generic
> HTML::FormFu::DBIC base class for elements, constraints and maybe filters
> might also be considered before investing more time in DBIC classes for
> FormFu.
>
> Maybe we can start collecting goals for such a HTML::FormFu::DBIC class.
>
> Greets,
> Mario
>
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