AW: AW: [Zope-dev] z3c.form SequenceWIdget extract

[Roger Ineichen]

Hi Mat
 
> Betreff: Re: AW: [Zope-dev] z3c.form SequenceWIdget extract

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> Hi Roger,
> 
> I am sorry, but I was not clear enough with my description:
> 
> In my search-form, I have a simple single-select-widget (i.e. 
> a dropdown). My problem is not to transmit multiple values 
> for a single widget over a GET-paramter-string - for this, 
> your solution should work.
> But I want to use the key and value of this dropdown-widget 
> just the same way as for input-widgets:
> I want to be able to build a query-string like
> 
> search.html?form.widgets.dropdown=foo
> 
> and have the SequenceWidget accept this single value. 
> Currently, SequenceWidget depends on the fact, that in the 
> templates for sequence-widgets, the name of the widget gets a 
> postfix of ":list" (so "form.widgets.dropdown" is now 
> "form.widgets.dropdown:list") and because of that, the value 
> is transformed to a list by zope.publisher.browser.BrowserRequest.

I see

> But because the method in my application that builds the 
> query-string has no knowledge about the widget-types - it 
> simple has key-value-pairs
> - it can not append the ":list" postfix to the paramter name, 
> thus the value is not transformed to a list and 
> SequenceWidget disregards the value altogether.
> 
> With the two additional lines, SequenceWidget does not assume 
> anymore, that value has already been transformed to a list (a 
> bold assumtion as I think, since it depends on the default 
> templates) and it will accept query-strings of the given form.

Ok, I got it, I think you are right. 

Stephan, any hints?

Regards
Roger Ineichen

> Regards,
> 
> Mat
>