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Notes on the re-tool of WebTools

TO DO

  • Put source and line number in own html, not in the editor
  • Object inspector
  • Transaction control buttons
  • Label the columns
  • Handle Errors
  • Array.new doesn’t show source: fix
  • Use an after filter (or rack middleware) to do the timing?

Things to change:

  1. The /tools url returns objects. The ‘file’ attribute is really a uri attribute. The ST WebTools expected something like CodeBrowser.html, and would serve up that file. In Sinatra, I use a simple URI like ‘/browser’, and let the view return the guts.... Thus the name ‘file’ is a misnonmer.

How the tabs work

The tabs use jQuery http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Tabs

The app is loaded by calling http://localhost:4567/. This loads the index.rhtml file, which is a complete page (we don’t use a layout, since we want to load one page, and then just add DOM fragments for each additional tab.

index.rhtml defines empty tabs for each of the tools. This is currently hard-coded in the .rhtml file, but the list/order of tools could easily be made dynamic.

To add a tab to the application: Add an <li> entry to the <ul> in index.rhtml. If the href is of the form “#fooTab”, then you’ll need to load JSON for it. If it is of the form “/fooStuff”, then it will be loaded via a GET ‘/fooStuff’, so add an entry into the lib/webtools_app.rb Sinatra app.

Once the bare html is loaded into the browser, the jQuery ready() function initializes the tabs and the first tab gets selected, which loads its html:

$(document).ready(function() { $(“#tabs”).tabs(); });

Since each tab is dynamically loaded, and we only want the markup for that tab, the html for the version report is in version.rhtml and looks like:

<div> <table> <caption>GemStone Version Report</caption> <thead> <tr><th>Attribute</th><th>Stone</th><th>WebTools</th></tr> </thead> <tbody id=’versionTable’> <% @data.each do |k,v| %> <tr><th><%= k %></th><td><%= v[0] %></td><td><%= v[1] %></td></tr> <% end %> </tbody> </table> </div>

The jQuery-UI takes care of adding all of the various class and id attributes on the tabbed DOM elements so that the jQuery-UI css can style it appropriately. There is themeing support, but I haven’t played with it yet.

jQuery provides the option to cache data in the tabs, so that the url is retrieved only the first time, but I haven’t turned that on yet.