[html-formfu] handling repeatable on the javascript side

[Mario Minati]

Hi,

I'm just working on the implementation of client side repeatable elements for 
ExtJS.

What I stumbled about are more complex forms with repeatable repeatables or 
nested repeatable or repeatable nested or ...

Currently I see no automatic way to determine on the client side if a given 
element name (e.g. inner.outer.name_1) is repeatable nested or nested 
repeatable, right?

The solution the came first to my mind was to analyse the form elements to 
discover which is repeatable and which is only nested. But that will not work 
in ExtJS if you choose to display e. g. each repeatable elements in it's own 
tab (when using a tabpanel). And I didn't want to trade flexibilty 
automation.

So I'm currently thinking of creating a picture of the repeatable and nested 
structure on the server side and sending this to the client, so the client 
can easily findout on how to build form and element names.

What do you think of this?

Can you think of any more elegant solution?

And shall we put the code to generate that 'picture' of the form structure 
into generic formfu, a plugin or just into FF::ExtJS class?


Greets,

Mario Minati