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Opened 18 years ago

Closed 18 years ago

#37 closed enhancement (fixed)

Handle CLOS object references ('foreign keys') in form renderers

Reported by: Slava Akhmechet Owned by: Slava Akhmechet
Priority: medium Milestone: 0.1
Component: weblocks Version: pre-0.1
Keywords: renderers clos foreign key reference Cc:

Description

Currently form renderers don't handle non-inline CLOS object references (effectively, foreign keys). We need to design a mechanism that will allow users to select a foreign CLOS object in a form.

One option is to provide a generic function that will return a list of CLOS objects that can be displayed in a form. The form renderer will then grab a name of each of these objects and display it in a dropdown.

Change History (4)

comment:1 Changed 18 years ago by Slava Akhmechet

Priority: critical → medium

comment:2 Changed 18 years ago by Slava Akhmechet

Explore the possibility of using type declarations instead of magick "-ref" to determine if an object is to be rendered inline. This needs to be considered carefully as it may not be a good idea.

comment:3 Changed 18 years ago by Slava Akhmechet

Add a one-of type that renders as a dropdown snippet.

comment:4 Changed 18 years ago by Slava Akhmechet

Resolution: → fixed
Status: new → closed

Fixed. Reference slots are rendered as drop down by calling 'form-potential-values'. A special parser is called to convert object IDs back to objects.

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