Zbigniew Lukasiak wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Byron Young > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Zbigniew Lukasiak wrote: >> > Hi there, >> > >> > I've made a new version of the config generator - see the >> attachment. >> >> Hey Zbigniew, >> >> I think it's very useful. Thanks! >> >> However, I think I've found a problem with how it handles > belongs_to relationships. In my [very limited] usage of > HTML::FormFu, belongs_to ought to be represented with a > Block, like so: >> >> - type: Block >> elements: >> - type: Select >> name: belongs_to >> label: Belong_to >> attributes: >> title: Pick something from the other table >> model_config: DBIC: >> model: DB::ForeignTable >> >> >> Instead, your generator creates a Repeatable, which seems > to me to only make sense in the has_many case (or > many_to_many), since with belongs_to you can only have one > item from the foreign table. >> >> Are my assumptions wrong? Since I am a FormFu noob, I > wouldn't be surprised if the way I'm using it is not standard > convention. > > Certainly this is not a finished product yet. With belongs_to I have > a problem - because there are two logical configs for it - it can be a > Select like yours (I ton't think it needs the outer Block in that
Oh, cool, I didn't know that. > case) - but it can also be a nested Block with multiple elements that > would let you change the values in the record that is the 'owner' of > the original one. I think the Select would be the more popular > arrangement - so for the first version I'll do that - but what should > be the best way to cope with that? A config option for the config > generator? Maybe output both and let the user delete the one that is > not needed? Or maybe 'comment out' the less popular option? > Hmm, tough call. I would be happy with both so I can comment out the one I don't want. Thanks for the quick reply! Byron > Cheers, > Zbigniew > >> >> Regards, >> Byron >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HTML-FormFu mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/html-formfu _______________________________________________ HTML-FormFu mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/html-formfu
