[hunchentoot-devel] Widget Guidlines
Hi I have been using hunchentoot for the last two months and I have created a DB-Grid widget for myself. I pass relevant info in through parameters like table name and columns to display and the widget generates a html grid with paging, edit/delete and search functionality. My lisp experience however is limited and my widget is feeling more and more clunky as the functionality grows. I would like to ask the experts how they would structure/design such a widget using hunchentoot (cl-who + postmodern). I was thinking that such a widget might benefit others as well and others might have widgets that I might find useful. If we all use our own designs thow the resulting code might end up being to diverse to support. I would also not like to have to use a whole other framework on top of hunchentoot unless it came from the hunchentoot community and/or was supported by them. I would like the widgets to be as close as possible to hunchentoot to make them small, light and independant. Would it be feasible to set up a guideline/specification for hunchentoot widgets in general and widgets dealing with data-binding specifically? This way we could share widget among each other based on some standard that is documented and "trusted". Regards
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 7:41 PM, First name Last name <zaries@global.co.za> wrote:
I have been using hunchentoot for the last two months and I have created a DB-Grid widget for myself. I pass relevant info in through parameters like table name and columns to display and the widget generates a html grid with paging, edit/delete and search functionality.
My lisp experience however is limited and my widget is feeling more and more clunky as the functionality grows. I would like to ask the experts how they would structure/design such a widget using hunchentoot (cl-who + postmodern).
I was thinking that such a widget might benefit others as well and others might have widgets that I might find useful. If we all use our own designs thow the resulting code might end up being to diverse to support. I would also not like to have to use a whole other framework on top of hunchentoot unless it came from the hunchentoot community and/or was supported by them. I would like the widgets to be as close as possible to hunchentoot to make them small, light and independant.
Would it be feasible to set up a guideline/specification for hunchentoot widgets in general and widgets dealing with data-binding specifically? This way we could share widget among each other based on some standard that is documented and "trusted".
I think this generally sounds like a good idea although I imagine that it'll be kind of hard to reach consensus even in the small group of Hunchentoot users about the requirements for such widgets. Cheers, Edi.
Edi Weitz wrote:
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 7:41 PM, First name Last name <zaries@global.co.za> wrote:
I have been using hunchentoot for the last two months and I have created a DB-Grid widget for myself. I pass relevant info in through parameters like table name and columns to display and the widget generates a html grid with paging, edit/delete and search functionality.
My lisp experience however is limited and my widget is feeling more and more clunky as the functionality grows. I would like to ask the experts how they would structure/design such a widget using hunchentoot (cl-who + postmodern).
I was thinking that such a widget might benefit others as well and others might have widgets that I might find useful. If we all use our own designs thow the resulting code might end up being to diverse to support. I would also not like to have to use a whole other framework on top of hunchentoot unless it came from the hunchentoot community and/or was supported by them. I would like the widgets to be as close as possible to hunchentoot to make them small, light and independant.
Would it be feasible to set up a guideline/specification for hunchentoot widgets in general and widgets dealing with data-binding specifically? This way we could share widget among each other based on some standard that is documented and "trusted".
I think this generally sounds like a good idea although I imagine that it'll be kind of hard to reach consensus even in the small group of Hunchentoot users about the requirements for such widgets.
Perhaps the widgets in the WEBLOCKS project would be a possible starting point. Hemut
2009/1/19 First name Last name <zaries@global.co.za>:
Hi
I have been using hunchentoot for the last two months and I have created a DB-Grid widget for myself. I pass relevant info in through parameters like table name and columns to display and the widget generates a html grid with paging, edit/delete and search functionality.
Hi, I believe that attempt for such standardization could be weblocks (based on hunchentoot)... http://weblocks.viridian-project.de/ Best regards, Tomek Lipski
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Tomasz Lipski