[forge-dev] [Need Help to do some updates on my forge folder to get scaffold customized]

Lincoln Baxter, III lincolnbaxter at gmail.com
Thu Jan 3 22:39:34 EST 2013


Yes, however make sure you are using the github repository to get the code,
not just unzipping the JARs :)

http://github.com/forge/core


On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 7:28 PM, George Gastaldi <ggastald at redhat.com> wrote:

> Always use the latest version , 1.1.3-Final in the case :)
>
> Em 03/01/2013, às 21:30, Richard Kennard <richard at kennardconsulting.com>
> escreveu:
>
> > Ahmed,
> >
> > Sounds great! Note there is an existing RichFacesWidgetBuilder in Forge.
> The intent would be you create a new PrimeFacesWidgetBuilder for purely
> PrimeFaces
> > components, and combine that with RichFacesWidgetBuilder and
> HtmlWidgetBuilder (and probably ReadOnlyWidgetBuilder) by using
> CompositeWidgetBuilder.
> >
> > You should *not* need to create your own WidgetBuilder that creates both
> PrimeFaces *and* RichFaces components.
> >
> > Re: the version of the sources, that's one for Lincoln :)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Richard.
> >
> > On 3/01/2013 9:51 PM, Ahmed ELJABIRI wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Thank you Lincoln & Richard for your answers and for your help.
> >>
> >> I'm actually creating a custom WidgetBuilder based on Primefaces
> components as with RicheFaces one.
> >>
> >> Once finish the module, I will integrate the jar in the
> metawidget-all-2.4, and then I'll edit the file metawidget-entity.xml, and
> also the two classes
> >> FacesScaffold and
> >>
> >> EntityWidgetBuilder to adapt them to the changes.
> >>
> >> But an other question concerning forge sources, should i use those of
> forge-1.1.3.Final(https://github.com/forge/core/tree/1.1.3.Final) or those
> >>
> >> of 1.1.2.Final that we use actually ?
> >>
> >> Thank you so much in advence.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 2013/1/2 Lincoln Baxter, III <lincolnbaxter at gmail.com <mailto:
> lincolnbaxter at gmail.com>>
> >>
> >>    Well... it probably won't happen until we get Forge 2 out the door,
> sadly, unless someone out there has some time to contribute to make it
> happen.
> >>    Forge 2 will make this much easier to do and hopefully we will
> re-design the whole scaffold architecture so that resources can be made
> available to
> >>    metawidget from other addons more easily (actually this is already
> working as seen in the resource addon.)
> >>
> >>
> https://github.com/forge/core/blob/2.0/resource/api/src/main/java/org/jboss/forge/resource/ResourceFactory.java#L78
> >>
> >>    If we just want to be able to add template resources from disk, then
> that would be fine as well, but I'd want to know what folks think is a
> >>    reasonably friendly way of doing this for end users. I really don't
> know what would be good/acceptable.
> >>
> >>
> >>    On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Richard Kennard <
> richard at kennardconsulting.com <mailto:richard at kennardconsulting.com>>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>        Ahmed,
> >>
> >>        Yes - much of what you want to accomplish can be done by writing
> a custom WidgetBuilder (see
> >>
> http://metawidget.org/doc/reference/en/html/ch02s04.html#section-architecture-widgetbuilders-implementing-your-own)
> and then modifying
> >>        metawidget-entity.xml to hook it in. You may also modify the
> /resources/scaffold/faces templates (create.xhtml, search.xhtml etc).
> >>
> >>        The hard part is how to actually *get at* these files to modify
> them. This has been an outstanding issue for some time. Lincoln can we make
> a New
> >>        Years resolution to get some movement on this?
> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGEPLUGINS-68
> >>
> >>        For now you probably need to repackage your own plugin.
> >>
> >>        Regards,
> >>
> >>        Richard.
> >>
> >>
> >>        On 3/01/2013 8:05 AM, Lincoln Baxter, III wrote:
> >>
> >>            Hello Ahmed,
> >>
> >>            Welcome to the list.
> >>
> >>            At first glance, it seems that you should be able to do this
> relatively simply by modifying the metawidget XML configuration, and perhaps
> >>            providing your own generation class, but I will need to
> defer you to Richard Kennard, the author of Metawidget, since he will know
> the answer
> >>            (and hopefully be able to tell you how to proceed without
> too much trouble on his part.)
> >>
> >>            I am not too knowledgeable about this part of Forge. I've
> also copied a few people who might be able to give advice with their
> experience
> >>            writing custom scaffolds.
> >>
> >>            ~Lincoln
> >>
> >>            On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 6:19 AM, Ahmed ELJABIRI <
> a.eljabiri at gmail.com <mailto:a.eljabiri at gmail.com> <mailto:
> a.eljabiri at gmail.com
> >>            <mailto:a.eljabiri at gmail.com>>> wrote:
> >>
> >>                Ahmed
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>            --
> >>            Lincoln Baxter, III
> >>            http://ocpsoft.org
> >>            "Simpler is better."
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>    --
> >>    Lincoln Baxter, III
> >>    http://ocpsoft.org
> >>    "Simpler is better."
> >>
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> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Best Regards,
> >> ---------------------
> >>
> >> Ahmed EL JABIRI
> >> Senior JEE Developer at Ardass Conseil
> >> e-mail : ahmed.eljabiri at ardassconseil.com <mailto:
> ahmed.eljabiri at ardassconseil.com>
> >> Phone : +212 668 204 835
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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