@permalmberg How will the decision to use a text field or a slider be conveyed?

you should look at an old project called wicket web beans

@edvin Don't know yet. this is still early in the design stage, but I think some for of metadata

it solved it by using beanproperties

at the current client we designed a form xml system

What I do is basically use reflection to read all properties of a domain object, then decide based on the type of the property what kind of input field to create. Then I have annotations on fields that will tell if the property is required, or list a set of options for dropdowns etc, or even override by specifying the type of control to create. Then the rest is wired together.

where we generate xml based on a metamodel and have (dont start crying) ext.js to draw forms

@ron That's about what I'm talking about as well, but without XML, just generate based on the metadata I can read from the domain object itself.

that completely cured me of ext.js. javascript and form generation

Then the UI is returned, and the Task can even make changes to it by implementing a callback that will receive the built ui, to take care of those crazy corner cases.

@edvin Yes, annotations is one way to go.

@ron Haha, I can believe it.

@permalmberg It works pretty well, and is easy to extract at runtime.

@edvin Yes..and better than to invent something new

@permalmberg In my setup, only about 5 percent of the fields require annotations, the rest can be extracted directly. For example a field of type enum I will generate as a combobox and list all the enum values. No extra info needed unless you want to specify that you want a list box instead or something like that.

why the enum value and not the enum name?

@ron Name 🙂

Not the ordinal

I use enum types in my databases a lot as well.

So it converts directly to the domain objects.

enums can be very powerfull

But I refuse to start working on this before I've written some documentation!! hehe.. In fact, I'll log off right now and get started. Talk to you later guys!

Thank you all for your input tonight. It is a pleasure to discuss things with you 🙂 Now I have to do some afk-stuff.

I am going to play factorio tonight

see you all tomorrow

Enjoy your evening, guys 🙂

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@carlw Good call... 🙂

Wow, so nice!!

The print looks really good.