[hunchentoot-devel] Widget Guidlines

[Helmut G. Enders]

Edi Weitz wrote:
> 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.
> 

Perhaps the widgets in the WEBLOCKS project would be a possible starting point.

Hemut