[Seaside] WASystemConfiguration - rendering a button?

[John Thornborrow]

Hi Julian,

Thanks for the info. I've used exactly what you suggested, in that I've
implemented my own "WAButtonAttribute"

I did consider creating an administration panel within the app, but as
we don't have any existing authentication, and a lot of our own
configurations anyway, it made better sense to keep it on the /config
page. :)

Regards,
John.

Julian Fitzell wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> A good question... that's not something we've explicitly supported
> before. Off the top of my head, one solution might be to create some
> kind of CommandAttribute that you could add to your application's
> SystemConfiguration subclass. Then you'd need to add a method to
> WAUserConfigurationEditorVisitor that could render a button for that
> new attribute type. It would be a bit weird, because I guess the
> attribute would ignore any value it received.
>
> Probably the better solution, since this isn't really a
> "configuration" thing, would be to extend the admin UI to be pluggable
> in some other way to provide admin commands. It could call a method on
> the Application/Handler, or look for methods marked with a certain
> pragma, or you could even have a configuration attribute that
> specified a command class (or a list of command classes) or something
> (though that may be irritatingly overkill). I would love to see the
> web-based admin console expand to be more useful, and it's possible we
> could look at integrating something you did in this direction, but it
> won't come from us before 3.0 comes out.
>
> Or, the simplest solution, create an admin component for your
> application and register it at a different path. :)
>
> Julian
>
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:13 AM, John Thornborrow <john at pinesoft.co.uk> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm looking to migrate one of our apps to Seaside 3.0 from 2.8. One of
>> our configurations has the below code:
>>
>> GlorpConfiguration>>accept: aVisitor with: html
>>    html form: [ html submitButton
>>            callback: [ aVisitor application newGlorpSession
>> recreateTables ];
>>            text: 'Recreate Database Schema' ]
>>
>> Having looked (briefly) there doesn't seem to be a suitable alternative
>> in Seaside3.0
>>
>> Is there something I have missed?
>>
>> To summarize: I would like to add a button to my app's configuration
>> page, that I can attach a callback to :)
>>
>> Regards,
>> John.
>>
>>
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