Mark Fuller wrote:
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 5:13 AM, Ronald Schmidt
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am looking to generate easy visualizations of
objects serialized in a database USING the underlying model.
It sounds like you're talking about a glue between "model" components
like dbix::class, class::dbi, etc?
Close. Yes a glue layer between HTML::Template and a database. I could
try to use some of these higher layer abstractions (including Rose:DB)
or use a modern DBI layer with its
primay_key/primary_key_info/foreign_key_info functions ...
What would drive it? An existing template, or an existing data
definition? I see those two choices like this:
1) For a data structure, create a template on the fly, and populate it?
- Isn't that data dumper?
1) Is NOT the driver. As I see it, it is often difficult to guess the
structure of underlying objects correctly from a schema.
2) For a template, get a list of params in the template and populate
them if the same-named item is found in a data structure (retrieved
from a model component)?
2) Is the proposed driver. Retrieved from model component or schema.
Is that right?
It all sounds harder to explain than I thought it would be to use ;).
Any further thoughts?
Mark
<html>
<head><title>Test Template</title>
<body>
<TMPL_LOOP NAME="+books">
<ul>
<li />Title is "<TMPL_VAR NAME=".title">"
<li />ISBN is <TMPL_VAR NAME=".isbn">
<li />Authors are:
<ul>
<!-- name below is shorthand for +books.book_id.authors -->
<!-- could still be abbreviated to +authors if fk's link
tables -->
<TMPL_LOOP NAME=".book_id.authors:ORDER_BY:.last_name,.first_name" >
<li /><TMPL_VAR NAME=".last_name">, <TMPL_VAR
NAME=".first_name">
</TMPL_LOOP>
</ul>
</ul>
</TMPL_LOOP>
</body>
</html>
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