[jifty-devel] Two questions about Actions

[Edward Funnekotter]

Thanks for the answers everyone.  Using defer worked perfectly for the
dynamic section set.

On 12/11/06, Nelson Elhage <nelhage at bestpractical.com> wrote:
>
> Isn't the right answer these days supposed to be Scalar::Defer?
>
> param group_name =>
>   label is 'Group Name',
>   type is 'select',
>   valid_values are defer { get_groups(); };
>
> I don't know if it actually works yet, although I did see some commits
> recently that I think were trying to fix it.
>
> - Nelson
>
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 10:24:49AM -0500, Jesse Vincent wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 04:15:33PM +0100, Agostini yves wrote:
> > > Le lundi 11 d??cembre 2006 ?? 09:41 -0500, Edward Funnekotter a ??crit
> :
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I haven't found any documentation to answer these yet (forgive me if
> I
> > > > missed them):
> > > >
> > > > 1. Is it possible to populate an Action's selection field at
> runtime?
> > > > What I am trying to do is have a selection box in a form that has a
> > > > subset of a list of items that is dependent on the user.  I tried
> the
> > > > following:
> > > >
> > > >   param group_name =>
> > > >     label is 'Group Name',
> > > >     type is 'select',
> > > >     valid_values are sub { get_groups(); };
> > > >
> > > > But it seems that giving a code ref to the valid values is not
> > > > acceptable.
> > >
> > > I don't think it's possible in action
> > > I make this yesterday by making my own html form
> >
> > What we've done in the past is to do this in the arguments sub. (Which,
> > yes, is deprecated, but I haven't yet spent enough time with the param
> > syntax to know the answer with it off the top of my head)
> >
> > sub arguments {
> >     my $self = shift;
> >     return $self->{__cached_arguments} if (exists
> $self->{__cached_arguments});
> >
> >     my $args = $self->__get_cache->{$self->__cache_key($self->record)}
> ||=
> >         $self->SUPER::arguments();
> >
> >     if (my $owner_id = $record->owner->id) {
> >         $args->{'owner_id'}{'default_value'} = $record->owner->email;
> >
> >         if (   $owner_id == BTDT::CurrentUser->nobody->id
> >             or $owner_id == $self->current_user->id )
> >         {
> >             $args->{'group_id'}{'valid_values'} = [
> >                 {   display => (($record->group_id ?
> $record->group->name : "Personal" ) . " (Unchanged)"),
> >                     value   => $record->group_id,
> >                 },
> >                 {   display => 'Personal',
> >                     value   => 0,
> >                 },
> >                 {   display_from => 'name',
> >                     value_from   => 'id',
> >                     collection   =>
> Jifty->web->current_user->user_object->groups,
> >                 },
> >             ];
> >         }
> >     }
> >
> >     ...
> >    return $args;
> > }
> >
> >
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