T4 Inline Table Editing

[Norman Franke <no...@myasd.com>]

I need to allow for easy table editing by adding an edit and delete  
button to a table (using Contrib's Table.) Adding the buttons is  
fairly easy, but what's the best way to allow for inline editing? I'd  
need to change the row to a row of edit fields instead of text fields.

The next question is that I'd like to then have an "add" button that  
would make a set of fields visible to add a new record. It would be  
even more slick to allow the number of new fields to be changed, e.g.  
clicking add multiple times creates multiple blank rows (not  
necessarily inside the main table.)

Here is my current thinking:

I'd like a general purpose solution that allows for the editing of  
any table, so the number and name of each column wouldn't be known in  
the HTML. I do this in another class by creating my own getColumnValue 
() that is called for a list of columns provided by the class. It's a  
bit of a hack, since that function needs to call PropertyUtils.read  
to get the column value, but it works. I could make the editable row  
a series of @TextField components, I think. They'd just set  
properties on an editable object, e.g. 'editObject.name"

To do the add feature, all I can think of is to submit the page and  
generate the list of new rows via a @For loop. The properties could  
be accessed via arrays, I guess, e.g. "addObject[2].name" assuming  
that works.

Any thoughts?

Norman Franke
ASD Inc.



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