Hi Chris,
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 3:20 AM, Chris Travers <[email protected]>wrote:
> This is a fairly simple set of API's that would be handled by a
> LedgerSMB::Request module (which we'd make Form.pm and LedgerSMB.pm inherit
> for now). This would be for handling input declaratively. The API would
> be as follows:
>
> $request->required($att1, $att2, $att3....);
>
> would raise an exception if any attribute was not provided, This would
> allow us to more easily eliminate the low-knowledge errors provided to
> users like "required input not provided".
>
> $request->required_series($start, $stop, $attr1, $att2, $att3)
>
> This would generate names in the format of ${att1}_$start ..${att1}_$stop
> and require those.
>
> The following would apply only to 1.4:
>
> $request->number and $request->number_series with the same syntax above.
>
> $request->date and $request->date_series with the same syntax above.
>
> What do people think?
>
>
Well, we have gone over the idea a bit through gTalk before, but I wanted
to state my response here as well. One thing I would like to prevent is to
encode identical knowledge in multiple places - that's always a
synchronization nightmare.
So, ideally, we'd invent a scheme where we can map the fields in the
screens to fields in the database api, or better yet, to fields in the
database. That way, the service could consult the database api and
determine which fields will be required upon submission of the form.
Even better: if we can derive which fields are required, why not do that
before we send the forms to the browser and use the "required" input
attribute to have compliant browsers verify it for us without request
overhead?
Now, of course, there's the problem of determining a model where we can
derive the "requiredness" from the database model.
--
Bye,
Erik.
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