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

[Mario Minati]

On Tuesday 18 September 2007 19:38:54 Zbigniew Lukasiak wrote:
> 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'?

When using 'populate' you cannot be sure if something is being changed later 
on. When 'process' and 'render' are called nothing will be changed anymore. 
That's why I use these functions.

> 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.

The 'config_callback' is a *very* interesting option, but how to define a 
config callback in the yml config file, that calls a function in a (catalyst) 
controller. 
This question get's even more general when thinking of a callback for 
javascript elements.

Do you have an ideas.

Greets,
Mario


> 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/D
> > > > >BIC. 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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