[web-devel] Form Composition

[Michael Snoyman]

Just passing this along:

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From: MightyByte <mightybyte at gmail.com>
To: web-devel at haskell.org
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:47:07 -0400
Subject: Form Composition
I wrote something like this for formlets[1] quite some time ago.  (We
called it massInput.)  For all practical purposes, formlets has been
superceded by digestive-functors [2].  I re-implemented it again for
digest-functors (called inputList) with more features and better
design[3].  It's a tricky problem, and I went down several dead-end
paths before converging on the solution as it exists in
digestive-functors now.  If you're going to re-implement it with your
form framework, I would highly recommend looking at our existing work
first.

[1] https://github.com/chriseidhof/formlets
[2] https://github.com/jaspervdj/digestive-functors
[3] http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/digestive-functors/0.1.0.0/doc/html/Text-Digestive-Forms.html#v:inputList

On Thur, June 16, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Michael Snoyman wrote:
> This is definitely something missing from the yesod-form API as is.
> I'm not quite sure how the API would look for this; has anyone given
> this some thought?
>
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Tyson Whitehead <twhitehead at ...> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm wanting to make a form for "[a]" by composing forms for "a" along with
> > added a delete options and a final add another option.
> >
> > Is there an accepted way to do this sort of thing?  It doesn't seem to me to
> > be a good fit for the applicative framework as it is not a fixed structure.
> >
> > Cheers!  -Tyson