ב"ה using the FormProcessor, all my exceptions seem to have disappeared. Now I have a problem, that although seems to be a separate problem is very much intertwined with everything else and I think it's really one issue.
The page basically looks like this: Nature Name: [text field] Locations: Name Allow St. Addr Allow Hosp. Addr Allow Doc. Allow Eqpmt Loc [text field] [X] [X] [ ] [ ] [[Remove button]] [[Insert Row button]] [[Save button]] And you can add/remove locations, e.g. for nature Hospital Visitation you would have one location, called "Location" or "Hospital" which is only allowed to be a hospital (when you enter the request you'll get drop-downs). A "Food delivery" might have a "From" and a "To," which can be street addresses, hospital rooms, or even a doctor's office, but it wouldn't let you select an equipment location. Now, this app is being rewritten, after I started it in PHP. In the PHP version (I didn't know how to use multiple submit buttons then) adding and removing rows was done via a link, so it discarded any modifications you made to locations. (I'm trying to stay away from relying on Javascript). Now, with Lift, they are buttons, and so any modifications you make to locations are saved to the datastore immediately upon pressing them, because the page needs to reload with these locations. But neither of these behaviors is optimal. Really, it should keep track of your changes but only send them to the datastore when you explicitly press Save. But the page can get reloaded via Remove/Insert Row in between. Okay, so I made another RequestVar to hold pending new rows and rows pending removal, and it shows the page as if they were added and removed. But what happens if you modify the properties of a location and then insert a row? Modifying the location that that field was mapped to is pointless, because we don't want to merge it yet, but we're going to have to reload it from the datastore in a future request cycle, before we are able to merge it, because it doesn't seem to be able to merge an entity that was detached the last time the entity manager was closed. What am I supposed to do? Store everything in a fake (never persisted) nature/locations and then copy all the differences to the managed entity when processing the Save submit button? I hope you understand my question, let me know what needs clarification. Thanks a ton! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
