On Jul 8, 4:05 pm, Guyren G Howe <[email protected]> wrote: > I can't find a description of idiomatic handling of a many:1 relation through > a subform. Something like an asset database, where I have locations and > assets, and when I'm looking at the form for a location, there are add and > delete buttons and a list of the assets I can edit in that location. The idea > would be that the user can add and remove to the list just within the > browser, then the server parses that subform when it's submitted. > > So two things: > > 1. How to pass a location which has attached assets to a template or > ToscaWidgets, and have the subform generated with fields automatically > sequentially numbered (so Rails would give the fields in the subform names > like asset[1][name], asset[1][type], asset[2][name] etc and then parse those > into an array that the controller receives when the form is submitted). > 2. Write the controller to receive an array of subform values so it can > process them. Ideally using tgext.crud.controller, although that probably > doesn't matter. > > I'm wanting both to display this as HTML forms, and also to use it for a REST > API, so I'll want to know how the naming and parsing are done if that's > documented anywhere, although I guess I can just look at what's generated and > work it out if there's no documentation.
I could really use some advice on this. No-one? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en.
