How do I create form for my domain classes and the way to extract data

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 07/12/2009 13:43:43

Hi,

Thanks for creating weceem. It looks promising to me. I have earlier worked on alfresco. We wanted to explore Weceem, to be able to use it in the next project.

Could you please help me with the following questions :
1. How do I represent my domain classes in weceem, i.e forms through which users can put in data?
2. How do we extract the data from weceem i.e from another application?
3. In which format data would be sent?

Thanks & Regards,
Amit Jain

This message was edited 4 times. Last update was at 18/09/2009 10:51:22

Hi Amit,

Thanks for getting in touch.

I'm not 100% sure what it is you want to do, but I'll try my best:

If you want to have form submissions of data and you want to perform actions when those forms are submitted, you can just get the WeceemApp source code, which is a Grails application, and add a normal Grails domain class and controller to handle the requests and do whatever you like.

If you mean you need CMS uses to create custom content, Weceem has a fully extensible content model, and a dynamic content editor mechanism - you just create your own Grails domain class that extends Content and put properties on it.

In future I can imagine we will have a generic "user-submitted-content" submission mechanism in Weceem with hooks for per-content type customisation of behaviour. We need this for blog comment submission and other things, and I have been thinking about the approach for some time.

Later we may add a generic WebForm content type to core, but there are many ways to do this - it may start as a plugin for weceem and then be brought into core later. There's a lot of cool stuff we could do there.