On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 14:18, Caleb James DeLisle <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, I would like to propose a change in direction. > > I think the practice of marrying form fields to class properties > should be discontinued. > Including form information in the class property makes certain jobs > easier but XObjects do not always represent forms and marrying > something as high level as forms with something as low level as > objects makes code maintenance exceedingly difficult, not to mention > the general ugliness of code in xwiki-core which generates HTML.
Uge +1 on this, I never liked theses display properties that has nothing to do with datas. It should be client job to decide how best displaying/editing datas like we do with the macros and WYSIWYG. IMO it's very important that at some point we have the same kind of descriptors for macro, objects and any other entity with configurable typed parameters. For constraints I wrote some quick design some time ago for the WSIWYG needs on http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/Propertiesdisplayers. > > I would like to start development of 3 new XWikiDocuments: > XWiki.FormClass, > XWiki.FormFieldClass and > XWiki.FormFieldConstraintClass. > Much of the code in XWiki.Registration will be ported to these > classes. The fields will be validated twice, once at the client side > with LiveValidation, and once at the server side. > > I would then like to deprecate the use of the display related > settings in the class editor and eventually remove them from the > class editor entirely. > > I envision a form being made and fields added similar to the way we > add objects to a document. Likewise, each field will be defined by > selecting a display type from a predefined list then adding > validation constraint objects to the field. > > I have not started development on this and I am sure there will be > plenty more to discuss later. What I want to know is whether people > think this is the right direction. > > WDYT? Yep this is the right decision and we already started to go this path on the rendering/WYSIWYG side so +1 ;) > > Caleb > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
