[Html-widget] Rails-like form helpers - RFC for a new module

[John Napiorkowski]

Hi,

I'd like to give this a shot but having some trouble
fully grasping all the config setting.  Let's say I
have a relatively simple case, a table like so:

Members
 - member_id (PK)
 - gender_id (FK)
 - name

Genders
 - gender_id (PK)
 - name

Okay, and assuming I create some DBIx schemas for
these under:

Schema::Db::Members
Schema::Db::Genders

With the correct 'belongs_to' and 'has_many'
relationships between the two tables.

-- For members you can say ->gender to resolve the
gender object so you can do things like
"$member->gender->name".

-- For genders you can say ->members to resolve all
the members of a given gender like so
"$gender->members".

Let's assume all the PK's are auto increment to make
things easier.

Now let's say I wanted to make a form from the Members
table that has the name which is required but limited
to 64 characters and a select input for the gender_id
field that would link up to the genders table.

I'd do (assume I'm in Catalyst for the moment and have
a standard DBIx Schema model)

my $members  = $c->model('db:members');
my $member   = $members->find({member_id=>$id});

my $conf = {

  widget_element => ['Textfield'],
  
  name => 'name',
  label => 'User Name',
  
  constraints => [
  
    { 
	  constraint => 'Length',
	  max => 64
	},
	{
	  constraint => 'All',
	  message => 'Required Field',
	},
  ],
  
  widget_element => ['Select'],
  name => 'gender_id',
  label => 'Choose Your Gender',
  bridge_rel => 'gender',

};

my $widget = HTML::Widget::DBIC->create_from_config(
$conf, $members, 'Tag', $member );

I'm sure I got this wrong (since it doesn't work :) ).
 Where am I going wrong?

--John


--- Zbigniew Lukasiak <zzbbyy at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've just uploaded InstantCRUD version 0.0.17 to
> CPAN.  It includes
> this new HTML::Widget::DBIC module.
> I am waiting for comments.
> 
> --
> Zbyszek
> 
> On 10/2/06, Zbigniew Lukasiak <zzbbyy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I don't know but I don't like to add interface
> methods to the model - it
> > just does not feel right to me.  So
> DBIx::Class::HTMLWidget does not work
> > for me.
> >
> > --
> > Zbyszek
> >
> > On 10/2/06, Ash Berlin <ash at cpan.org> wrote:
> > > Are you aware that there is a
> DBIx::Class::HTMLWidget module?
> > >
> > > Perhaps it would be an idea to make changes to
> that rather than create a
> > > new module - since currently it does almost
> nothing.
> > >
> > > Ash
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Zbigniew Lukasiak
> > http://brudnopis.blogspot.com/
> 
> 
> -- 
> Zbigniew Lukasiak
> http://brudnopis.blogspot.com/
> 
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