On 2000.12.05 23:38:22 +0000 "Diethelm Guallar, Gonzalo" wrote:
> I want to allow the users (and Velocity programmers) to choose in
> a different way what columns they want to show. A typical example
> would be a form where you can specify what fields you want to see
> back from a query, and then have the template showing the query
> results just show those fields. I know I could do this with other
> mechanisms, but I think it could be useful to be able to specify
> fields by name.
Yes, I can see that being useful, something like:
#foreach $field in $selectedFields
<td>$object.getFieldByName($field)</td>
#end
> Also, I have other data services that return a bunch of fields,
> and that don't have torque-like generated classes with all the get*()
> methods. Therefore, for these data services, there will be a
> getFieldByName() method. I would like to be able to provide the
> same access method for SQL-based data services.
It should be trivial to add to the Object.vm torque template to generate a
getFieldByName method. Whether this would be wanted in the general case is
another matter... (I guess I'm +0 on patching Object.vm this way)
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Sean Legassick
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