Hi Thanks for the guidance -- on BJ's advice I had already decided to explicitly serialise the list in the widget. Glad to hear this fits with plans for the future course of TW5.
regards On Saturday, June 21, 2014 10:59:38 AM UTC+2, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > Sorry I've been out of this thread as I've been tied up for a day or two. > > > Would it make more sense for this widget to output a space separated > list? > > At the moment, the only fields that fully support lists of values are the > "tags" field and the "list" field. As BJ pointed out, these fields are > configured by the core with a serializer and deserializer that knows how to > translate the string value to and from a space separated list. > > If you store an array as the value of another field then it will not be > properly serialised on when the tiddler is saved; instead the default JS > behaviour kicks in and the array is converted to a comma delimited list > (Try executing [0,1,2] + "" in the browser console to see what I mean). > > All of the behaviour I've described is inherited from TW Classic. The plan > going forward is expressed in the roadmap with these words: > > "Tiddler object format (to provide true polymorphism of field values)" > > The idea is to move responsibility to the caller for serialising field > values into strings. This will mean providing some new APIs on the Tiddler > object. > > In the meantime, as BJ suggests, the fix is for you to explicitly > serialise your lists when you store them in a tiddler. > > Best wishes > > Jeremy > > > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 8:32 PM, Danielo Rodríguez <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hello Matabelle, >> >> Thank you for the detailed explanation. Now it is Cristal clear. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TiddlyWiki" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Jeremy Ruston > mailto:[email protected] <javascript:> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
