2009/4/21 Mario Minati <mario.min...@googlemail.com>: > Am Dienstag 21 April 2009 14:37:43 schrieb Carl Franks: >> 2009/4/21 Mario Minati <mario.min...@googlemail.com>: >> > 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? >> >> That's certainly a viable solution. >> >> However, I'd prefer it if the Repeatable munging of field names were >> "fixed" so that, for example, a repeatable-repeatable wasn't >> foo.bar_1_1 >> but >> foo_1.bar_1 >> >> I think this would solve your dilemma of needing to differentiate >> between repeatable + nested. > > This would be the most elegant solution and means rewriting the nested_name > handling. > > If you agree with that way, than I'm willing to dive into that task. > > Currently the code that changes the field names lives in Repeatable.pm in the > method repeat. > Actually I think changing that method to add '_$rep' to the nested_name should > do (roughly) the job. > > To do it correctly I would like to comment the repeat method very intensive. > Is that ok when commiting those comments? > > Shall make the behavior configurable to keep backwards compatibility?
Yes - feel free to do it! Yes - comments are good :) Backwards compatibility? Unless someone pipes up that they already have client-side code depending on it - don't bother - it'll just make our code more complicated. Cheers, Carl _______________________________________________ HTML-FormFu mailing list HTML-FormFu@lists.scsys.co.uk http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/html-formfu
