[html-formfu] Config generator

[Zbigniew Lukasiak]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Byron Young <Byron.Young at riverbed.com> wrote:
>
> Zbigniew Lukasiak wrote:
>  > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Byron Young
>  > <Byron.Young at riverbed.com> wrote:
>  >> Zbigniew Lukasiak wrote:
>  >>  > Hi there,
>  >>  >
>  >>  > I've made a new version of the config generator - see the
>  >> attachment.
>  >>
>  >>  Hey Zbigniew,
>  >>
>  >>  I think it's very useful.  Thanks!
>  >>
>  >>  However, I think I've found a problem with how it handles
>  > belongs_to relationships.  In my [very limited] usage of
>  > HTML::FormFu, belongs_to ought to be represented with a
>  > Block, like so:
>  >>
>  >>   - type: Block
>  >>     elements:
>  >>       - type: Select
>  >>         name: belongs_to
>  >>         label: Belong_to
>  >>         attributes:
>  >>           title: Pick something from the other table
>  >>           model_config: DBIC:
>  >>             model: DB::ForeignTable
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>  Instead, your generator creates a Repeatable, which seems
>  > to me to only make sense in the has_many case (or
>  > many_to_many), since with belongs_to you can only have one
>  > item from the foreign table.
>  >>
>  >>  Are my assumptions wrong?  Since I am a FormFu noob, I
>  > wouldn't be surprised if the way I'm using it is not standard
>  > convention.
>  >
>  > Certainly this is not a finished product yet.  With belongs_to I have
>  > a problem - because there are two logical configs for it - it can be a
>  > Select like yours (I ton't think it needs the outer Block in that
>
>  Oh, cool, I didn't know that.
>
>
>  > case) - but it can also be a nested Block with multiple elements that
>  > would let you change the values in the record that is the 'owner' of
>  > the original one.  I think the Select would be the more popular
>  > arrangement - so for the first version I'll do that - but what should
>  > be the best way to cope with that?  A config option for the config
>  > generator?  Maybe output both and let the user delete the one that is
>  > not needed?  Or maybe 'comment out' the less popular option?
>  >
>
>  Hmm, tough call.  I would be happy with both so I can comment out the one I don't want.

OK - I've just committed a fix for generating the Select box for
belongs_to.  It is in the svn at:
https://html-formfu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/HTML-FormFu-ConfigGenerator

Check it out.

Cheers,
Zbigniew Lukasiak
http://perlalchemy.blogspot.com/