Re: RESEND -> Re: [SUBMIT] [jelly] tag library for prompting users forinformation

[John Casey <jd...@00java.com>]

I like it.  I'll start on it tonight.

John

On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 05:11, James Strachan wrote:
> I got the one before; though these days I struggle to keep up with
> commons-dev and it sometimes takes me a while to responsd...
> 
> I hear you about the seperation of <label> and <input>.
> 
> Though from an XML perspective, you should try to not use XML attributes for
> text which might one day use markup. So, (say) one day we might want to
> create some kinda a UI implementation of the 'form' tags that allowed simple
> bold/italic/font markup in the labels. You can't really do that in an
> attribute value. Though I don't like the fact that we'd have to generate IDs
> for each label.
> 
> My main point really was just about the naming of the elements & attributes;
> that it'd be nice if we could use more HTML-ish names that was all. How
> about if we did this, where we allow labels to be specified as an attribute
> or as a child element...
> 
> <form>
>     <input id="bar" type="password" label="please enter a password: "/>
> 
>     <input id="foo" type="text">
>       <label>Please enter a foo:</label>
>    </input>
> </form>
> 
> This would also let folks wrap label contents in CDATA sections if required
> too. So we don't have to do a full HTML form thing, just use similar names
> for the core controls (input) and allow label to be an attribute or a child
> element?
> 
> James
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Casey" <jd...@00java.com>
> To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" <co...@jakarta.apache.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 1:08 AM
> Subject: RESEND -> Re: [SUBMIT] [jelly] tag library for prompting users
> forinformation
> 
> 
> I'm not sure if my MTA is bombing out or what, but it seems like some
> messages
> are not getting through.  Just in case, I'm re-submitting this reply.
> Please
> disregard if this got through the first time...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I have to say that I'm not really impressed with the HTML/XHTML 4 form
> syntax...I've looked over the w3c recommendation, and it just seems like
> any set of properties that belong together logically should be force to
> be written together syntactically.  It would be completely legal for the
> label and the input to be declared at opposite ends of the form, which
> would create two problems:  one, that the rendering becomes somewhat
> ambiguous, and two, that maintenance of that section of code would
> become infinitely more difficult.  I would propose taking a poll on
> this:  if everyone else thinks it's a good idea, I'll implement it
> (after all, it is a standard, whatever its quality).  Beyond that, I'm
> just not convinced that this would make a particular jelly script
> implementing a property sheet easier to comprehend / maintain...
> 
> Please let me know what you think on this...
> 
> Regards,
> John
> 
> On Fri, 2002-07-19 at 11:59, James Strachan wrote:
> > Thanks for that John - it all makes much more sense now.
> >
> > Just a thought - and this is kinda wacky.
> >
> > How about making these tags look a bit more like the familiar HTML markup
> > tags (or XHTML form tags)?
> >
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html
> >
> > e.g.
> >
> > <form>
> >     <label for="foo">Please enter a foo: </label>
> >     <input id="foo" type="text"/>
> >
> >     <label for="bar">Now a password:: </label>
> >     <input id="bar" type="password"/>
> > </form>
> >
> > Then the implementation of the tags could either be a command line
> interface
> > to forms, do Swing stuff or even pop up an XUL page in (say) Mozilla
> > browser, or a HTML browser. The nice bit about this approach is that the
> > snippet of XML would then be reusable across Jelly, HTML and even XUL.
> >
> > All it would really mean is a minor renaming of the tags and attributes.
> >
> > James
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "John Casey" <jd...@00java.com>
> > To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" <co...@jakarta.apache.org>
> > Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 5:16 PM
> > Subject: Re: [SUBMIT] [jelly] tag library for prompting users for
> > information
> >
> >
> > well I sent this one last night before the non-jar file, but I'll send
> > it again in case something else was messed up...
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2002-07-19 at 10:16, James Strachan wrote:
> > > Thanks. John do you have an example Jelly script to show how these tags
> > are
> > > meant to be used?
> > >
> > > James
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "John Casey" <jd...@00java.com>
> > > To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" <co...@jakarta.apache.org>
> > > Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 3:07 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [SUBMIT] [jelly] tag library for prompting users for
> > > information
> > >
> > >
> > > *sigh*
> > >
> > > Sorry for the spam, but here's the real jar...I'm still working out how
> > > the Jar functionality works from within NetBeans, apparently.  Sorry
> > > again.
> > >
> > > John
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2002-07-19 at 05:37, James Strachan wrote:
> > > > I think that JAR you sent is empty :-)
> > > >
> > > > James
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "John Casey" <jd...@00java.com>
> > > > To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" <co...@jakarta.apache.org>
> > > > Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 6:33 AM
> > > > Subject: Re: [SUBMIT] [jelly] tag library for prompting users for
> > > > information
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > FYI-
> > > >
> > > > I have included some minor changes to the package structures for the
> > > > interact stuff, along with a proof-of-concept for adapting it to Ant.
> > > >
> > > > It's not all that well documented in all cases, but I'll clean that up
> > > > eventually.
> > > >
> > > > Also, I've added to requested ability to override the gui display mode
> > > > in favor of a console-only mode.
> > > >
> > > > The attribute for this is consoleOnly='true' ...
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > John
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 22:49, John Casey wrote:
> > > > > I've included a test jelly script.  You can test it normally using
> > > > > Windows, etc. but currently the only easy way to test the console
> > > > > version of things is to have Linux or something and run it on non-X
> > mode
> > > > > like runlevel 3 or something.
> > > > >
> > > > > I would like to integrate an override switch for forced-console
> mode,
> > > > > however...I'll look into that tomorrow first thing.
> > > > >
> > > > > Also, I'd like to take a second and mention a couple of features I
> > > > > forgot about until now:
> > > > >
> > > > > - Option on the property-sheet to store results to file.
> > > > > - Option to provide autofill.properties for automation of otherwise
> > > > > interactive executions, so that default values are automatically
> used
> > > > > instead of prompting and waiting forever.
> > > > >
> > > > > Anyway, here's the test script that I used...see what you think.
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > > John
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 17:46, Stéphane MOR wrote:
> > > > > > John Casey wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > >I submitted this once before to the maven-dev list, since I saw
> > more
> > > > > > >Jelly traffic on that than on commons-dev, but here goes again...
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > Hi John !
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Last time you posted that, you forgot the sources ! :-)
> > > > > > As I started something identical that on my side, I simply
> finished
> > it
> > > > > > and put it in
> > > > > > the org.apache.commons.jelly.interaction package.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > >I'm attaching the source code for an interaction tag library,
> that
> > > will
> > > > > > >prompt the user for input and save the result to a variable...
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > By now, there is only an AskTag that asks the user a question, and
> > > sets
> > > > > > the value
> > > > > > to a variable (like yours), which is the basic thing that I would
> > > expect
> > > > > > from an Interaction thing !
> > > > > >
> > > > > > >Additional features include:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >- input types: text, password, boolean, numeric text, and
> drop-down
> > > > list
> > > > > > >(comma-separated default value supplied)
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > I like those ideas, the password is something that we could need,
> > and
> > > > > > the boolean value
> > > > > > is essential in interactive scripts.
> > > > > > I thought about a ChoiceTag, which must be the same as you
> drop-down
> > > > > > list, even if
> > > > > > I can't see how my console would show me that drop-down list ...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > >- auto-detection of GUI-enabled JVM's; console display for
> > otherwise
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > Cool !
> > > > > > If my JVM is GUI-enabled and if I don't want any GUI, do I have a
> > way
> > > to
> > > > > > disable it somehow ?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > >- solid domain object model backing tags, to promote
> extensibility
> > > and
> > > > > > >reimplementation into Ant task
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > hmmm, I need more infos there, I should find that in the sources
> :-)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > >The source files here are [mostly] well-documented.  I'm posting
> > them
> > > > > > >here with the hope that they will be integrated into the Jelly
> > > project,
> > > > > > >so that I can maintain them as a standard part of the Jelly tool.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > I'd love to help you to integrate that, as I feel that it's
> > something
> > > > > > that can be very
> > > > > > valuable.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > > Stéphane
> > > > > >
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> > > > > ----
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> > > > >
> > > > > <j:jelly xmlns:j="jelly:core"
> > > > >
> > >
> xmlns:i="jelly:org.apache.commons.jelly.tags.interact.InteractTagLibrary"
> > > > > xmlns:a="jelly:ant">
> > > > >
> > > > >   start
> > > > >
> > > > >   <i:property-sheet>
> > > > >     <i:property key="pull_cvs" prompt="Pull new source files from
> CVS"
> > > > type='boolean'/>
> > > > >     <i:property key="phase" prompt="Build phase" type='drop-down'
> > > > defaultValue='one,two,three' />
> > > > >     <i:property key="retries" prompt="Maximum retries"
> type='numeric'
> > > > defaultValue='3' />
> > > > >     <i:property key="config_file" prompt="Path of config file"
> > > type='text'
> > > > />
> > > > >     <i:property key="password" prompt="Web server password"
> > > > type='password' />
> > > > >   </i:property-sheet>
> > > > >
> > > > >   Pulling from CVS? ${pull_cvs}
> > > > >   Build Phase: ${phase}
> > > > >   Maximum Retries: ${retries}
> > > > >   Using Config File: ${config_file}
> > > > >   Using Password: ${password}
> > > > >
> > > > >   end
> > > > >
> > > > >   <a:echo message="done..."/>
> > > > >
> > > > > </j:jelly>
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