On 5/25/07, James Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I asked can I put the metadata of a DB column into an HTML Object > somehow and it would automatically create > the appropriate html form element, you said: [...] > > So does this mean that the answer is no but instead I can define my own HTML > object for each type of column. And then the html object can be used to > create forms and validate form input by simply assigning each DB column object > to the appropriate HTML object?
There is no preexisting mapping between RDBO column types and RHTMLO field types, nor is there a method that takes a column and gives you an appropriate field. But it's not hard to write one, since both RDBO columns and RHTMLO fields have name/class mappings: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Rose-HTML-Objects/lib/Rose/HTML/Form.pm#field_type_classes http://search.cpan.org/dist/Rose-DB-Object/lib/Rose/DB/Object/Metadata.pm#column_type_classes > If so, I can see the benefit of this because one person might want to do their > date form one way and another person differently - so forcing a form for date > column types to be a particular format, as I was suggesting, is not ideal. Right, that's why there's no default way to do this built in. -John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Rose-db-object mailing list Rose-db-object@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rose-db-object
