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

[Zbigniew Lukasiak]

Hi Mario,

After some reading around in FormFu I need to backtrack a bit with the question:

Why you override 'process' and 'render' instead of 'populate'?

Another posibility I saw is to use the 'config_callback' option - but
that would work only on loaded config - so your way is more general.

Cheers,
Zbyszek

On 9/14/07, Mario Minati <mario.minati at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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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