Re: MVC with Freemarker

I've used Stripes with Freemarker for template's.  It was very simple and
worked well.  The latest Spring MVC is nice too. Good luck, -David.

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Chris <[email protected]> wrote:

> I know this is a little beyond the scope for Freemarker, but...
>
> We're designing a new app, and I'd like to use Freemarker as the
> template engine. Freemarker really only handles the "V" in the MVC
> pattern, though. We're going to do the "M" on our own. What are other
> people using for the "C" part?
>
> In particular, are there any libraries out there that make it easy to
> load / save form data? Here's the sequence:
>
> 1. Customer requests a customer record.
>
> 2. We fetch it from the db, copy it into a TemplateModel-compatible data
> structure.
>
> 3. Render the template, putting the data into form fields like this:
>
> <input type="text" name="foo" value="${foo}"/>
>
> 4. User edits data, hits a "save" button. Form gets posted back to the
> server.
>
> 5. Form data get magically copied back into the data structure, which we
> can then use to update the db.
>
> (Actually, on #3 above it would be nice to omit the value="" part and
> have the system handle it automatically).
>
> For step #5 it wouldn't be too tough to write code that looped through
> the Request.getParameterMap() and filled up the data model. The trouble,
> though, is that when you render a list or table of values, like database
> records, and you let the user add or edit more than one record at a time
> on the client side, you've got to implement some kind of fancy naming
> convention for the form field names so you can keep them in sequence.
> The Request just brings back an unordered list of name/value pairs, so
> unless you've got a naming scheme, you can't know that the user edited
> record #3 on the page and added records #9 and #10. Same problem occurs
> if you let a user reorder rows in a table.
>
> I'd really rather have a framework do that work for me.
>
> What are other people using?
>
>
> *********
> We've fooled with Ruby on Rails, Grails, and a few others that manage
> the whole MVC stack from database to UI, but none of them really fit the
> bill.
>
>
>
>
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