Custom inline anonymous functions for field type?

[lkrubner]

Thank you for all the great work on formative.

I have a request: could you add a field "type" that allows us to add in an inline anonymous function for handling that field? For simple HTML formatting I'd rather define the function inline that invent a custom method with:

(defmethod render-field :hyperlink-value ;;;; code here)

My scenario:

Assume I have something like weblog software, so I have "posts" and "users". Each post is owned by 1 user. On the admin form that allows an admin to edit the "posts", I want the "user-id" field to be a hyperlink that could take an admin from the "post" record to the owning "user" record.

I could:

(defmethod render-field :hyperlink-value ;;;; code here)

Or I could make the presentational HTML fields work to this purpose (I assume).

But I'd rather just define an anonymous function inline, for relatively rare stuff like this.

[jkk]

If showing a link is a common pattern, your :hyperlink-value type with a :url key or something might work. What I usually do for such things is use a :labeled-html field type and set its :html key at runtime using merge-fields.

[lkrubner]

K, thanks. That is what I will do.

[lkrubner]

I guess I'll go with (defmethod render-field :hyperlink-value ;;;; code here). For my software, this is very common - I'm handing in a value (a string) and wrapping it in a simple HTML link. I do not want to set the value every time at runtime.