[html-formfu] non-processing actions, WAS: Date element stopped working

[Zbigniew Lukasiak]

I know this will sound extreme, but frankly, I would just entirely
scratch the whole Catalyst::Controller::HTML::FormFu and leave it only
as a POD describing the available integration possibilities.  There is
rather not much of code there and with so many options it is spread
very thin.

And additionally multiple inheritance causes no end of problems - so
it is advisable to avoid forcing users to 'use base' to use your
library.

Cheers,
Zbigniew

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Carl Franks <fireartist at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 25/03/2008, vti <viacheslav.t at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >
>  > I created sample Cat app and behaves the same as my app. Sorry for the name, but
>  >  it is what I fill now :)
>
>  ah, the problem is that you're setting the default() after the
>  FormConfig action calls $form->process.
>
>  If you make any changes to the form, you need to add a
>  $form->process() before returning from the action subroutine.
>
>  What would be ideal - and I think has been discussed before - would be
>  a FormConfig action that doesn't automatically call process() - as it
>  can be an expensive and possibly destructive method to call twice.
>
>  I think I was initially worried about an explosion of action names, as
>  we already have:
>     Form
>     FormConfig
>     FormMethod
>     MultiForm
>     MultiFormConfig
>     MultiFormMethod
>
>  Adding non-processing actions would immediately double that number.
>
>  Maybe something like
>     FormConfig('process=0')
>     FormConfig('config-file', 'process=0')
>  would be better than adding new action names.
>
>  It might get hairy handling all possibilities though, as the
>  attributes don't really support multiple arguments, so we'd have to
>  parse the strings ourselves.
>  fex, with the above example we'd actually get something like:
>     $VAR1 = "config-file\', \'process=0"
>
>  Carl
>
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