Extended input form

[heikkilevanto]

With the new data types comes the need to input them. Many things are only needed for some data types, but a few are (almost?) universal:

• Date and time
• Location and geo coordinates (usually hidden)
• Alc, Vol, and Price
• Rating and comment We also need a new input to define the record type

So, keep the datetime and geo as a normally hidden section.

Add record type next to location. Depending on the record type selected, show one of the following sections:

• Beer: Style, Brewery, Name, maybe also hops and fruits, perhaps also tap
• Wine: Category (red/white), country, region, grapes
• Booze: Category (whisky, snaps), country, region, flavoring
• Restaurant: Style, Foods, Drinks. (no alc?!)
• Maybe also Evening/People and general comments.

Technically, all the inputs can be in the same form, as long as they are uniquely named. The record type decides which fields we end up using.

[heikkilevanto]

Done. Driven by the record definitions, or which we only have Beer and Old at the moment. More will come.

[heikkilevanto]

Another way would be to do the rendering on server-side. Changing the type would reload the page with an override for the type. That way, we could just do every field in order, and check against the record type (or override) if the field should be shown.

[heikkilevanto]

Doing it on server side seems to work better

Testing with a Night type that just has a comment and a text field for people. That brings up many warnings, which I am slowly killing.

[heikkilevanto]

Tried to disable the type pull-down, and enable when the user clicked Clr, but that somehow made it not to transmit the value on change.

Thinking about moving it into the hidden section, and just displaying the type in the main section.

[heikkilevanto]

Moved the type into the hidden section, works fine. I think the input form is now nearly complete. May have to add a few more fields if I define new record types, but that will be trivial.