Re: Dynamic Form Best Architecture
So you want to build a dynamic UI based on same definitions you get from a web service? I've taken a similar approach only I used XML to hold on to the meta data for the UI and Java to process the business logic. If I were to do it all over I would use Wicket Forms. Why re-invent the wheel? :) https://github.com/thombergs/wicked-forms Have a great day, Paul Bors On Jun 1, 2014, at 4:44 PM, Martin Grigorov mgrigo...@apache.org wrote: Hi, Can you give some examples with pseudo data ? It is a bit hard to follow what is the requirement. If I follow correctly you have a radio group. Depending on the selected radio you have to make a call to a web service and render some form controls dynamically for the web service response, right ? You can have just one Panel for the dynamic part of the form. Start with an EmptyPanel and selecting a radio will replace it with another one. To create the dynamic form controls you will need a set (of Fragment or Panel) of all possible controls and just add them to a repeater. Martin Grigorov Wicket Training and Consulting On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 11:18 AM, sim999 simon.rie...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm a new user of Wicket and I would like to have your opinion. Here is what I'm trying to do : Step 1 : My application calls a web service to retrieve some data. Step 2 : Based on these data the application must build a big web form, this form ask the user many questions (15-20 for instance, most of the time yes/no questions (without submit button), sometimes new inputs may appear etc). Each time a response is given a new question appears (conditions of appearance can be the previous response and / or data retrieved by the web service). At the beginning all the questions are invisible. I have multiple options to architecture this : - Initialize all the panels for each question and make them invisible at the beginning. Use Ajax on each Radio Button (yes / no), checkbox etc and make them appear. The problem as see with this solution is that it forces me to add all the panels to the form and the logic of appearance is fragmented in each panel which handle the question. The other problem is that we need the server (Ajax for each response) even though it isn't needed once we retrieved the data from the web service. The last problem I see is that how do I manage to hide all the children of a panel if the user decide to go back and change his response to a previous question. - Same as previous but I add dynamically the panel / question for each response. However once again the logic of appearance is fragmented in each question and it is difficult to maintain. - Same as previous but all in JavaScript. I will need to convert all the data from the web service to JavaScript variables not really the wicket Way... - Maybe I could use Nested Forms but I lack the required distance to be a good judge. I don't really know if is really the best response to my problem. - Finally What about the form Component panel ? Note : There are in fact many big forms depending on the user profile. If you could give me your take on this I will be really grateful. -- View this message in context: http://apache-wicket.1842946.n4.nabble.com/Dynamic-Form-Best-Architecture-tp4666065.html Sent from the Users forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org
Re: Dynamic Form Best Architecture
Hi, Can you give some examples with pseudo data ? It is a bit hard to follow what is the requirement. If I follow correctly you have a radio group. Depending on the selected radio you have to make a call to a web service and render some form controls dynamically for the web service response, right ? You can have just one Panel for the dynamic part of the form. Start with an EmptyPanel and selecting a radio will replace it with another one. To create the dynamic form controls you will need a set (of Fragment or Panel) of all possible controls and just add them to a repeater. Martin Grigorov Wicket Training and Consulting On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 11:18 AM, sim999 simon.rie...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm a new user of Wicket and I would like to have your opinion. Here is what I'm trying to do : Step 1 : My application calls a web service to retrieve some data. Step 2 : Based on these data the application must build a big web form, this form ask the user many questions (15-20 for instance, most of the time yes/no questions (without submit button), sometimes new inputs may appear etc). Each time a response is given a new question appears (conditions of appearance can be the previous response and / or data retrieved by the web service). At the beginning all the questions are invisible. I have multiple options to architecture this : - Initialize all the panels for each question and make them invisible at the beginning. Use Ajax on each Radio Button (yes / no), checkbox etc and make them appear. The problem as see with this solution is that it forces me to add all the panels to the form and the logic of appearance is fragmented in each panel which handle the question. The other problem is that we need the server (Ajax for each response) even though it isn't needed once we retrieved the data from the web service. The last problem I see is that how do I manage to hide all the children of a panel if the user decide to go back and change his response to a previous question. - Same as previous but I add dynamically the panel / question for each response. However once again the logic of appearance is fragmented in each question and it is difficult to maintain. - Same as previous but all in JavaScript. I will need to convert all the data from the web service to JavaScript variables not really the wicket Way... - Maybe I could use Nested Forms but I lack the required distance to be a good judge. I don't really know if is really the best response to my problem. - Finally What about the form Component panel ? Note : There are in fact many big forms depending on the user profile. If you could give me your take on this I will be really grateful. -- View this message in context: http://apache-wicket.1842946.n4.nabble.com/Dynamic-Form-Best-Architecture-tp4666065.html Sent from the Users forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org
Dynamic Form Best Architecture
Hello, I'm a new user of Wicket and I would like to have your opinion. Here is what I'm trying to do : Step 1 : My application calls a web service to retrieve some data. Step 2 : Based on these data the application must build a big web form, this form ask the user many questions (15-20 for instance, most of the time yes/no questions (without submit button), sometimes new inputs may appear etc). Each time a response is given a new question appears (conditions of appearance can be the previous response and / or data retrieved by the web service). At the beginning all the questions are invisible. I have multiple options to architecture this : - Initialize all the panels for each question and make them invisible at the beginning. Use Ajax on each Radio Button (yes / no), checkbox etc and make them appear. The problem as see with this solution is that it forces me to add all the panels to the form and the logic of appearance is fragmented in each panel which handle the question. The other problem is that we need the server (Ajax for each response) even though it isn't needed once we retrieved the data from the web service. The last problem I see is that how do I manage to hide all the children of a panel if the user decide to go back and change his response to a previous question. - Same as previous but I add dynamically the panel / question for each response. However once again the logic of appearance is fragmented in each question and it is difficult to maintain. - Same as previous but all in JavaScript. I will need to convert all the data from the web service to JavaScript variables not really the wicket Way... - Maybe I could use Nested Forms but I lack the required distance to be a good judge. I don't really know if is really the best response to my problem. - Finally What about the form Component panel ? Note : There are in fact many big forms depending on the user profile. If you could give me your take on this I will be really grateful. -- View this message in context: http://apache-wicket.1842946.n4.nabble.com/Dynamic-Form-Best-Architecture-tp4666065.html Sent from the Users forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org
