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
