Re: Thoughts on Woody ...

[Sylvain Wallez]

Reinhard Poetz wrote:

From: Sylvain Wallez
 

This is fine and already works today.
But how do we handle data binding, suppose you have a 10 pages form. I don't want to do this explicitly for each form [this means writing 10 times load(...) and 10 times save(...)] or is this the way we should go?
     

Mmmh... is this a "composite binding" on a "composite form" composed of several individual forms?

Or maybe just a helper JS library for linear multi-form wizards to which you would just give the list of definitions, views and bindings.
   

Some mails ago you introduced a wizard object, maybe we can use it:

function myWizard() {
 var myBean = new BlaBla(); // get values from your backend
 var wiz = new Wizard();
 wiz.setForm( "form1", new Form( "form1.xml" ), [myBean] );
 wiz.setForm( "form1", new Form( "form1.xml" ), [myBean] );
 wiz.getForm("form1").showView( "myForm1Pipeline", {} );
 wiz.getForm("form1").showView( "myForm1Pipeline", {} );
}
interface Wizard() {
 void setForm(String id, Form form, Object[] binding);
 Form getForm(String id);
}
... I think I get it slowly, don't I?

Yep ;-)

The wizard I was thinking of was generic and not woody-related, so the 
one you outline above can be a FormWizard built on top of the generic 
Wizard class.

Sylvain

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