On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 21:01, Timothy Larson wrote:
> If we want to only send selected fields to the browser, and not
> all empty fields are guarantied to be sent back by the browser,
> then it seem we need to know which selected fields were sent so
> we will know which selected fields to process on return.
> 
> To me this says we should either create explicit views of a form
> (to exist between the form definition and the form templates),
> or we need to collect (and possibly cache) the list of widgets
> that are in the template and use this list to drive the form's
> readFromRequest method.

yep, I was thinking the same.

> So far, I lean toward using an *optional* set of explicit views.

But with explicit views, you would still need to know what view was used
when a form is submitted, so the name of the view would then be embedded
in the form itself?

A problem I see with explicit views is that they need to be static
(IIUC). I think a common use case will be that the template file is
processed by the JXTemplate generator and that some widgets will be
included conditionally.

> This may even lead to the possibility of the view introducing
> view-specific widgets, driven by the same general set of needs
> that produced the aggregate widget.

Could you expand a bit on this?

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