Chris,
Almost there I think, a whole weekends work and I have just managed to
get the form to display errors when deliberately tripping the rule,
cool! The last leg of this race is just to populate the databases with
the action, I'm guessing it isn't working because of the DEFAULT_KEY
thing you pointed out earlier. Would the following work? not sure on the
name value setup passing through with the RunData/Context:
---On The Form---
<input type="hidden" name="querykey" value="new">
---Action--- Something like this?:
Group group = intake.get("Customerentry", "querykey");
Or
Group group = intake.get("Customerentry",
data.getParameters().getString("querykey"));
Your help has been much appreciated and I will be putting my experiences
on the wiki so maybe it might help others.
Cheers,
Stuart.
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris K Chew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 02 March 2003 19:58
To: Turbine Users List
Subject: RE: Intake From The Beginning?
Hi Stuart.
No problem, I understand where you are. I remember writing a message
about
a year ago to the tune of "Who the heck uses this Intake anyways, and
why is
it so hard to learn?". The guys in my office can probably remember my
outbursts...
Torque does not implement the Retrievable interface because Torque is a
separate entity from Turbine, and Retrievable is a Turbine construction.
As
such, you need to do it manually for any object you want to populate
using
Intake. I posted on the wiki a small snippet of what implementing
Retrievable means, it is very simple to do:
http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?JakartaTurbine2Faq/CommonIn
take
Problems
Keep in mind that Torque creates an empty target object that extends
your
base object for things like this (i.e.. in your case empty Customer
extends
BaseCustomer). Fortunately, Torque will leave your changes alone when
you
add to Customer and regenerate your OM.
Good luck,
Chris
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart Townhill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 12:45 PM
> To: 'Turbine Users List'
> Subject: RE: Intake From The Beginning?
>
>
> Chris,
>
> Thank you for the reply, much appreciated. Haven't quite implemented
all
> of the recommendations yet but had a question about the implementing
> Retrievable in my target object. I thought that if I was using Torque
> generated objects it would create them already with Retrievable
> implemented? If not then is that also the case for the getQueryKey
> setQueryKey methods?
>
> Regards,
>
> Stuart.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris K Chew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 02 March 2003 16:46
> To: Turbine Users List
> Subject: RE: Intake From The Beginning?
>
> Hi Stuart. I noticed a couple of things in your code samples:
>
> *Is there any info in Turbine.log?
>
> *Have you by any chance implemented org.apache.turbine.om.Retrievable
in
> your target object? This is an easy thing to miss and will keep
Intake
> from
> initializing.
>
> *I think you should have mapToObject="Customer" instead of
> mapToObject="customer" in your intake.xml group declaration. Java
cares
> about capitalization, and Customer is not the same class as customer.
>
> (These last two should make the #set ($customerGroup =
> $intake.Customerentry.mapTo($customer)) work anyways)
>
> *In your action class, you call group.getProperties(customer). I
think
> that
> you actually want group.setProperties(customer). If you read the
> JavaDoc
> for org.apache.turbine.services.intake.model.Group, it indicates that
> getProperties populates the form field from the object, while
> setProperties() sets the object properties from the form field. And
you
> want to populate the object in the action, not the form field.
>
> *Your action contains the line:
> Group group = intake.get("Group", IntakeTool.DEFAULT_KEY);
> which should be:
> Group group = intake.get("Customerentry",
> IntakeTool.DEFAULT_KEY);
>
> *One last thing, I have never been successful with the .Default
syntax.
> Instead, I set the querykey to something like "new", and put the query
> key
> in a hidden form field which is picked up in the action class and used
> in
> intake.get("groupname",querykey).
>
> I just created a Common Intake Problems page in the wiki. Please add
to
> it
> as you get your instance working!
>
> Good luck,
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stuart Townhill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 4:34 AM
> > To: 'Turbine Users List'
> > Subject: Intake From The Beginning?
> >
> >
> > To anyone who can help,
> >
> > I know intake is the most talked about topic and that everyone may
be
> > fed up of the posts but I have read a lot and now going around in
> > circles. If I get a very simple intake to work just using the tools
> > supplied with TDK and working with my database (business object) I
> will
> > attempt to write a very basic idiots guide on the wiki. Anyway not
> sure
> > what to say is wrong with my code but have copied and pasted four
> > cuttings from the relevant files. I have read the service document
and
> > how-to and are aware of it using Scarab and have seen many posts on
> > various different issues but I believe using the screen class to
> > populate the context rather than actions and the use of pull tools
> would
> > be simpler for a beginning.
> >
> > Pretty sure intake.xml is fine.
> >
> > Think I have populated context correctly in screen class?
> >
> > In template when I map to object in context " #set ($customerGroup =
> > $intake.Customerentry.mapTo($customer)) " my input field does not
> render
> > correctly in browser and the if statement to catch "
> FirstName.isValid()
> > " fails but they do create correctly with " #set ($customerGroup =
> > $intake.Customerentry.Default) " but from my reading this statement
is
> > only to do with intake and NOT mapping to a business object.
> >
> > Not to sure about action yet since haven't managed to create form
> > correctly but have written it.
> >
> >
> > ---My Coding Attempt---
> >
> > ---Intake.xml---
> >
> > <input-data basePackage="soundideas.covert.om.">
> > <group name="Customerentry" key="customerentry"
> > mapToObject="customer">
> > <field name="Firstname" key="f" type="String"
> > mapToProperty="firstname">
> > <rule name="minLength" value="1">Please enter first
> > name</rule>
> > </field>
> > </group>
> > </input-data>
> >
> >
> > ---Screen Class---
> >
> > public class InsertCustomerIntake extends SecureScreen
> > {
> > public void doBuildTemplate(Context context)
> > {
> > Customer customer = new Customer();
> > context.put("customer", customer);
> > }
> > }
> >
> >
> > ---Template---
> >
> > <form action="$link.setPage("InsertCustomerIntake.vm")"
method="post"
> > name="customerentry">
> >
> > <input type="hidden" name="action" value="doInsertCustomer">
> > #if ($data.Parameters.nextTemplate)
> > <input type="hidden" name="nextTemplate"
> > value="$data.Parameters.nextTemplate">
> > #else
> > <input type="hidden" name="nextTemplate" value="index.vm">
> > #end
> >
> > #set ($customerGroup = $intake.Customerentry.mapTo($customer))
> >
> > #if ( !$customerGroup.Firstname.isValid() )
> > $customerGroup.Firstname.Message<br>
> > #end
> >
> > <input type="text" name="$customerGroup.Firstname.Key"
> > value="!$customerGroup.Firstname ")>
> >
> > <input type="submit" name="eventSubmit_doInsert"
value="Insert"/>
> >
> > $intake.declareGroups()
> >
> > </form>
> >
> >
> > ---Action---
> >
> > public class doInsertCustomer extends SecureAction
> > {
> > public void doInsert(RunData data, Context context)
> > throws Exception
> > {
> > IntakeTool intake = (IntakeTool) context.get("intake");
> > Group group = intake.get("Group", IntakeTool.DEFAULT_KEY);
> > if (group.isAllValid())
> > {
> > Customer customer = new Customer();
> > group.getProperties(customer);
> > customer.save();
> >
> >
>
data.setScreenTemplate(data.getParameters().getString("nextTemplate"));
> > }
> > }
> > }
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Stuart.
> >
>
>
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