On 19.10.2008, at 15:13, Ramsey Gurley wrote:
I've been giving a lot of thought to user input instructions for the past couple of days. WebObjects has a really awesome input validation system, so it seems rather odd to me that there doesn't appear to be any sort of analogous system for providing user input instructions. I'm wondering what everyone else is doing in this case. Are you guys just hardcoding this info into your page templates? Is there some kind of inputInfoForKey(key) method I'm overlooking somewhere? It seems like this would be a pretty common requirement.
I have a super class for my pages (components) that do edits which has an array of "validationMessages", I also create a dictionary of each object name + attribute key as the key and a css class as the value.
That stuff is used to highlight fields / labels (custom reusable components) with errors and I also have a MessageComponent that can take the array of messages, can localize them if necessary, is completely configurable on the verbosity, css classes used, and so on.
This is basically very similar to what DirectToWeb does with the ERNeutralLook.
As an addition there is something like the RoR "Flash" messages inside the Ajax framework in Wonder. With all that I have no need to be more generalized. It's very long ago that I had to do anything but just putting components on a page. On most edit pages I have less than 10 lines of custom code (besides support code for some Ajaxy stuff).
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