Re: [Webware-discuss] FFK: dynamic forms -- CVS location

[Edmund L. <el...@in...>]

On 01/23/2003 01:21:56 AM Max wrote:

>Where is FFK's CVS?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/funformkit


>Would next stable version of FFK be release soon?
>Or may be it would be included in Webware 0.8 release?
>
>I it bothers me a bit to use CVS checkout on production site. ;)

Can't be helped... I'm finding bugs in FFK now and then. Generally, I think
it is fair to say that FFK v0.4, being quite a rewrite of earlier versions,
needs more testing before  a tarball should be cut, or it be bundled with
Webware.

In any case, source/version control isn't necessarily a mark of unstable
software--it is a sign that the code is being worked on and managed. I
actually deploy production stuff right out of a Subversion checkout. This
way, I get an automatic code update/distribution mechanism for free.

If you want to use FFK 0.4, I do suggest using what's in CVS since this is
the only way you're going to be able to get all the fixes in a timely
manner. E.g., the mutable forms code in the tarball does not work. I've
fixed it as best I can, but I'm not willing to declare victory yet,
although things seem to be working properly in this department.

I have more bug fixes that I'm testing now, relating to full versus partial
form validations. But, I don't expect to check these fixes until I've used
them enough to test them.


>> formDef = FormDefinition(...).mutable()
>
>> Then, use the methods defined for class MutableFormDefinition to
>> add/replace/delete fields.

I added an accessor method to get at the form definitions from the servlet.
It is formDefinitions(), returning a dictionary containing form
definitions, keyed by form name. To use mutable forms, you need to know
what their names are, so you cannot rely on the auto-naming that FFK uses.
So, make sure you do something like:

formDef = FormDefinition(...., name="myForm").mutable()

then when you want to fiddle with the fields:

fd = self.formDefinitions()["myForm"]
fd.addField(...)
etc.

...Edmund.