Hey all,
I'm working on some code (it's actually within one of my classes right now),
that I think would be a good addition to turbine. It's a way of
automatically updating the fields in a peer class based on the fields in a
submitted form. For example, if you have a contact object, and the fields
are:
firstName
lastName
address1
address2
city
state
zip
You can set up a wm template with a form that has <input type="text"
name="firstName">...etc.
Then in the action you can do:
ParameterParser pp = data.getParameters();
myContact.updateFields(pp);
And it will automatically set all of the member variables in the Contact
object which are in the parameter parser.
Furthermore, if you have more than one contact displayed on a form, you can
append the contactID to the name of each form element, for example:
<input type="text" name="firstName$contact.ContactId">
And the code above will know to automatically take the form fields with the
correct ID.
For fields which end in a number (like Address1) you can prepend the
contactId to the name of the form element.
Does this sound like something I should generalize, and we can put it into
turbine?
I think it would go well in the autogenerated peer code, or as a base class
which those would extend...
-Nissim
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