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User Interface widgets and utilities for Solid
https://solidos.github.io/solid-ui/dist/solid-ui.js
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Form: Add default properties for a new object? #460

Open josephguillaume opened 2 years ago

josephguillaume commented 2 years ago

When using ui:Multiple, currently a new object is created and linked to the subject with the specified ui:property. https://github.com/solid/solid-ui/blob/c4ad302f361cc4a1de24941a475cb66333c43805/src/widgets/forms.js#L273

The form to use for the new object is then specified by ui:part

It appears there is currently no way to specify default properties for the new object, e.g. its rdf:type. For rdf:type in particular, this means that forms for the new object will not be rendered by solid-panes, which discovers the relevant form based on its class.

Possible solutions

I don't whether there is a need for a more general templating mechanism, but at least for rdf:type, a solution could be to allow ui:Multiple to also use ui:category (as for ui:Classifier) or ui:targetClass (as for ui:Autocomplete)

Another option would be to specify ui:from (as for ui:Choice) instead of ui:part, and choose the ui:creationForm based on the specified rdfs:Class.

Example use case

Generating a new observation

sosa:Observation ui:annotationForm :ObsForm.
:ObservationList ui:annotationForm :ObsListForm.

:ObsListForm
    a ui:Multiple;
    ui:part :ObsForm;
    ui:property rdfs:member;
    ui:category sosa:Observation.

:ThisObsList a :ObservationList.

Creating a new object in :ThisObsList would generate:

:ThisObsList rdfs:member :id1639432788935.
:id1639432788935 a sosa:Observation.

Edit: I've got an patch using ui:category here: https://github.com/josephguillaume/my-solidos-patches/blob/2860861f3ce4ddde9a8b0831ca520e4492878991/solid-ui.diff#L32

Edit: incidentally it's possible to get the desired behaviour by using ui:reverse with rdf:type as the ui:property

sosa:Observation ui:annotationForm :ObsForm.

:dummyClass ui:annotationForm :ObsListForm.
sosa:Observation a :dummyClass.

:ObsListForm
    a ui:Multiple;
    ui:part :ObsForm;
    ui:reverse 1;
    ui:property rdf:type.

Visiting sosa:Observation builds a form for :dummyClass which generates triples: :newsubject a sosa:Observation

This might be more of a curiosity than a real solution.