THis is all very good stuff. Thanks for contributing this excellent stuff to Lift!
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Naftoli Gugenheim <[email protected]>wrote: > > I committed some code last night, which can help building mapper-based view > snippets, with G-d's help. It includes the following classes: > (1-2) net.liftweb.mapper.OneToMany, ManyToMany: Gives a more > object-oriented approach to managing related entites. You can manage the > many side of a 1-n and n-n as a mutable collection of children, and the > parent of a child can be set directly, instead of via its id. And the > children are not saved to the database when you add them until you call save > on it or its parent, nor deleted when you remove tem until you call > delete_!, which is very helpful when you need to keep track of adds/removes > through multiple requests. For example, if you are displaying a list and you > can click delete, but it shouldn't be permanently deleted until you click > save. > There is a new package, ...mapper.view, which contains a number of > utilities for mapper-based views: > (3-4) ModelView and ModelSnippet provide a number of building blocks for > views that are too complex to CRUDify. Inherit ModelSnippet (which extends > StatefulSnippet) and wrap your entities in ModelView (view is used in the > sense of a wrapper). > (5) Util provides some more building blocks that just be imported, without > needing a ModelSnippet context. > (6-7) Paginator makes it easy to create paginated, user sortable listings. > You can use PaginatedSnippet instead of ModelSnippet to help. > (8-10) ItemsList lets you manage a list of entities with pending additions > and deletions. It's used by TableEditor, which is a very easy to use and > customizable snippet to edit tables directly. It's useful for editing short > lists, e.g., a lookup table like cities. Don't forget to register the table > in Boot. > (11) Then there's the experimental FormProcessor, if you need your form to > be processed in one block instead of separate closures, e.g., to surround > with try. > (12) Also experimental is sitemap.XmlMenu which lets you write menus in > xml. > (13) I may add CaseEnum, which lets you write case classes that > automatically double as an Enumeration. > Questions, comments, suggestions, and constructive criticism are more than > welcome! > Thanks. > > > > > -- Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp Git some: http://github.com/dpp --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
