Re: [Webware-discuss] Fun with forms

Matt Feifarek wrote:
> On Jan 20, 2008 8:33 PM, Ian Bicking <ianb@???
> <mailto:ianb@???>> wrote:
>
> The option no one seems to consider, but which I continue to advocate,
> is using FormEncode with htmlfill and ad hoc templates to generate the
> actual HTML forms (because once you take out the value filling, error
> filling, and validation, it's easy to generate HTML forms).
>
>
>
> Yeah, your position on that is well-known ;-) It's a philosophy I agree
> with, but my practical needs trumped philosophy, and I was hoping that
> ToscaWidgets would make my life easier. Doh.
>
> I tried pure formencode for a project, but what I ended up with was a
> giant if-elseif-else tree in every single controller action. And crazy
> complicated conditional logic in every single template. I guess I never
> figured out how to get htmlfill to work; the docs[1] made it sound
> fishy, and it seemed just too "magic" for me. I didn't like the idea of
> leaving markers in the template for errors. I guess I should try again.

You don't technically have to leave markers in the templates; if you
don't leave them there they are put in automatically right before the
field with the error.

The @validate decorator in Pylons helps with some of this. But anything
that effects control flow is tricky to work with.

   Ian

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