Re: Randomely generated numbers for select elements

Thanks for the info Ian, I´ll go with large random numbers, I wont have 
to change my backend code then.

Ian Bicking wrote:
> akira wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have javascript code that allows me to duplicate HTML select 
>> elemets, although the users can delete the elements, each newly 
>> generated element gets a new name number in ascemding order, for 
>> example:
>> <input id="test-0" type="checkbox" name="test-0" 
>> value="${c.publicize}" checked="${c.publicize}">
>> <input id="test-1" type="checkbox" name="test-1" 
>> value="${c.publicize}" checked="${c.publicize}">               <input 
>> id="test-2" type="checkbox" name="test-2" value="${c.publicize}" 
>> checked="${c.publicize}"> 
>> this works till the user posts the form, and I create new elemenets 
>> based on waht I retrieved  from formencode, since I just generate new 
>> names and ids in ascending order, things get out of sync  on the 
>> front-end.
>>
>> I wpuld like to know if formencode can also deal with randomly 
>> generated values like:
>>
>>
>> <input id="test-131"
>> <input id="test-424"
>> <input id="test-244"
>>
>> would I still be able to access the values with my existing code, 
>> would they still be grouped?
>
> Sure, it just sorts them by number, and then groups.  But then it'll 
> probably recreate.
>
> Maybe you should use test.x131, test.x424, etc -- using a dictionary 
> instead of a list.  You'll need to use something like ForEach, but 
> that knows about dictionaries; neither Schema nor ForEach will really 
> work right, but adapting ForEach shouldn't be too hard.
>
>   Ian
>
>


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