NextGen Web Form Prototype

[breck7]

Add "toWebForm" method and do an RFC explaining the idea.

[breck7]

Features:

• generate stump code (stump can then generate html)
• (using browser side javascript) as someone fills out form, fill out a textarea with the tree version, and vice versa
• perhaps the method could take the action/method (or not and it could be added to the stump code)

Issues to be aware of:

• for non-singleton fields, how do we allow adding multiple items
• it seems like most of the logic should go in grammar language, but we still have that dichotomy between grammar.grammar and grammarlanguage.ts
• not really appropriate for all langs
• catchAllNodes, catchAllCells, how do we handle?

Potential approaches:

• generate directly from grammar program
• provide an example program, parse it, generate form from that
• start by identifying which of the current langs would benefit from this

[breck7]

Useful: ncaDemo, arrow, iris (~for adding rows?), preeclamp, pau

Not useful: hakon, stump, dumbdown, dug, fire, chuck, wwt, swarm, project, stamp, grammar, config, jibberish, numbers, poop

So it's useful for non-nested, flat, tabular style, prefix/keyword grammars. For nodeTypes that compile neatly to a single table. Let's ignore iris for now.

• Should do it on the nodeType definition node.

• Compile each nodeType to a div.

• A label for each div

• Inside div is a collection of cellTypes.

• A placeholder for each cellType

• Perhaps a textarea for each nodeType that has no cells and a catchAll

• a simple single input for a catchAllCellType

• tags: input, textarea, label, select, option

• fieldsets perhaps with a legend?

• min, max, maxlength, placeholder, required

• checkbox, color, date, datetime-local, email, month, number, password, radio, range, tel, time, url, week

[breck7]

Copy/pasteable web form work has been moved here:

http://copypaster.treenotation.org/