On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 05:47:27PM -0800, Ashley Pond V wrote: > Putting the form profiles in YAML seems to work great (even though I > hate the fairly ridiculous arrays of arrays grammar). For example: > ... > > As crazy as it is, I like having it out of the code and into the > config stuff.
Specifically into the config? Or just out of the controller? I think it would not be hard to make any of the form systems use YAML to read in their config, but when I've done that I find it quickly gets too limiting for specifying validation. > I'm leaning more and more to having *all* of this stuff defined > (validation patterns, user messages for invalid input, clues for CGI > fields) in the Model (DBIC; I love it and never find time to try > Rose). Sort of a super phat Model. If it's not defined exclusively > there, it ends up defined there (via schema), the controller, > possibly the templates (messages), and even client-side in JS. I know > I'm showing my tremendous grasp of the obvious when I say, this is > just effing awful. Again, I think you can only put so much in storage, so you need a place for the form logic code that can't be represented in simple regular expressions, ranges, etc. The Rose form code is very cool. That's what I based my forms on. I don't find automatic form markup creation that useful -- the forms always seem to need customization. So, I generate the markup with templates. So my forms end up looking like: http://search.cpan.org/src/HANK/Catalyst-Plugin-Form-Processor-0.05/example/FormProcessor/root/templates/user/edit.tt Here's an example of how my forms work in Catalyst: http://search.cpan.org/~hank/Catalyst-Plugin-Form-Processor-0.05/lib/Catalyst/Plugin/Form/Processor.pm http://search.cpan.org/~hank/Form-Processor-0.15/lib/Form/Processor.pm -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
