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Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 11:04:07 +0100
From: Sylvain Wallez <sylvain@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: [lazy vote] cforms request processing
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Tim Larson wrote:

>We have talked several times about changing the request
>processing in cforms to not touch any widget whose
>request parameter is missing (to prevent these widgets'
>values from being reset to null,) the end result being
>that it would be easier for the view to decide how to
>split a form across multiple pages without breaking the
>SoC between the form model and the view.
>
>As discussed before, this change would involve sending
>a hidden field along with every checkbox to indicate
>the presence of the checkbox, because an unchecked
>checkbox does not generate a request parameter on POST.
>This would allow to distinguish between a checkbox that
>is unchecked versus a checkbox that is not on the page.
>
>What do we want to do?
>[ ] leave as is
>[+1] make the changes described above
>  
>

Sylvain

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