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

[Mario Minati]

On Friday 14 September 2007 17:42:45 Zbigniew Lukasiak wrote:
> 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.

That's a good idea. I'll change it to be more flexible in the next days.

Greets,
Mario

>
> 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.
>
> --
> 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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