Kejia Ye created ODFTOOLKIT-340:
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Summary: Propose to add new API to insert form controls into
document
Key: ODFTOOLKIT-340
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ODFTOOLKIT-340
Project: ODF Toolkit
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: simple api
Affects Versions: 0.7
Reporter: Kejia Ye
Fix For: 0.8
Here's a customer requirement that new APIs are needed to insert standard from
controls into document, like Radio buttons, Checkboxes and InputFields.
Additionally, it is required to assign appropriate labels and values to the
inserted controls.
To support this feature, a problem came up first. A form control is
implementation-dependent and it may have self-defined attributes that cannot be
ignored and auto-generated by editors. Besides, not all the forms defined in
the ODF specs are fully supported by common ODF editors.For example, AOO use
<form:formatted-text> to implement date field and time field.
I think one way to resolve this can be separating the implementation-dependent
details from other contents. Define a provider class which implements Form
interface and provide methods to create controls, like
provider.createTextArea(initValues). For now we can only use OOFormProvider as
the default one and use its implementation methods to initiate the controls,
but user can also define customized providers by themselves.
Besides, how to define the style of a shape and set anchor type of a control to
char may be also complex. I'll try to figure them out as I dig into the details.
Any one have comments or ideas with this proposal? Thanks!
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