[hunchentoot-devel] Widget Guidlines

[Edi Weitz]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 7:41 PM, First name Last name
<zaries at 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.