Date: 2005-01-20T17:25:47
   Editor: ScottEade
   Wiki: Jakarta Turbine Wiki
   Page: Turbine2/WishList
   URL: http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-turbine/Turbine2/WishList

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= Turbine Wish List =

If there are things that you would like to see changed or added to Turbine, 
here is the place to talk about it.  Please sign your comments and/or 
suggestions.  If you would like to cast a vote in favor of some of these 
requests, sign you name with a +1 after the discussion.  

''Note: the +1 is not to indicate a committer vote.  It is to express your 
interest in the enhancement.  The best way to REALLY cast you vote is to supply 
a patch  ;-)''

== Intake: Database validations for a field ==
I would like to be able to have a field validated using a database lookup.  
This would be in addition to the normal validation rules.  

-- QuintonMcCombs

== Intake: Group level validation ==
You should be able to validate relationships between fields within the same 
group.  For example, I would like to validate that startDate > endDate where 
both fields are dates in the same group.  This would require a group level 
isValid flag and a group level errorMessage.

Related messages on the turbine-dev list:
 *  http://mail-archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgId=252761

-- QuintonMcCombs

== Intake: Javascript generation ==
Form field validation should ideally be done on the client side.  It should 
also be done on the server side in case javascript is not available or is 
disabled on the client's browser.  In order to prevent having to maintain one 
set of validation rules in Intake and another in javascript, I think that 
Intake should be abloe to generate javascript to perform form validation based 
upon the rules that are defined in intake.xml.  

This would obviously preclude being able to generate validation rules that are 
only possible on the server such as database lookups.  Generating most of the 
JS code for the client side validation is better than none at all!

Related messages on the turbine-dev list:
 *  http://mail-archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listId=93&msgNo=5661
 *  http://mail-archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=5671

-- QuintonMcCombs

+1 - Why add to server-side compute load when unnecessary? Let the client do 
it! Extending Intake to generate js for validation would move Intake up the 
food chain as a powerful tool for form validation. -- ["jdiggans"]
 *  In actual fact, Javascript validation is a convenience to users only, you 
still need to validate on the server to ensure someone isn't mucking about with 
the client or the data stream.  This being the case, providing js validation 
will only add to the server side load.  That said, I'm all for improving the 
user experience. -- ScottEade 2003-01-20
 *  We should also look at Jakarta Commons Validation to see if it is 
appropriate to retrofit it as the backend to Intake. -- ScottEade 2003-09-29

== Getting Rundata by using a static method ==

e. g. Turbine.getRunData() would be great

-- Anonymous

+1 - I wrote a service to do this a while back, but I think it'd be great to 
have a simple static method. The service just maps Threads to RunData. The 
mapping is plugged in at the Page level in doBuildBeforeAction and doPostBuild. 
Its especially convienent to know who the current user is at any place in the 
code without passing the RunData object around everywhere. -- krokicki

== Intake: Documentation ==
 * The service document should be rewritten to without examples from Scarab.  
This seems to be confusing for new users.
 * A quick reference for the fields, validators, and rules should be developed.

-- QuintonMcCombs
== Turbine Exception Handling ==
The way the Turbine 3 servlet passes Exceptions to the handleException method 
of a configured Exception''''''Handler would be useful for Turbine 2. Currently 
the handleException method is implemented in the Turbine 2 servlet, but it 
would be better to allow a custom implementation. 
 ''This was originally posted by Rodney Schneider on the turbine-dev list''

== [wiki:/PageLayout Embedded layouts on Velocity templates] ==

+1 QuintonMcCombs

== More robust multi-part message handling ==
Implement more robust multipart message handling (org/apache/turbine/util/mail)

''(This item was copied from 
http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/turbine-2/todo.html)''

Isn't this what the commons-email project has in sandbox?  I use it, and it 
seems to do everything? -- EricPugh

== Cocoon 2 Implementation ==

Well thought out (and executed) Cocoon 2 Implementation 

''(This item was copied from 
http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/turbine-2/todo.html)''


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