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Olly.Stephens at arm

Jul 1, 2008, 6:54 AM

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a fancy ShowUser - not quite possible

Hi,

I've implemented a local fancier version of "Elements/ShowUserVerbose" -
one that shows the username but then has a tooltip attached to it that
shows more info about the user when you hover over it.

This worked fine initially but then I noticed a problem - the "ShowUser"
element is used in multiple contexts. For example, it's also used in
Elements/SelectUsers to generate the options in a multiple select. In
this situation I just want a simple name and my override mucks things
up.

I can think of two solutions to this so I thought I'd canvas people as
to which would be the more likely to be adopted upstream if I provided a
patch:

A) Introduce a "ShowUserFancy" element which is used in cases where
there is opportunity to enhance the HTML produced but who's default
action is just to drop through to ShowUser (ie gives me a more specific
hook to override)

B) Add a "Context" parameter to the ShowUser calls so that I can tell if
it's in the plain page or in a form element etc. (ie gives me the
necessary info in my override to make a formatting decision)

C) Abandon my attempt to do fancy things :-)

Which would people prefer?

Any whilst I'm on the subject, I noticed a few places where a username
was rendered directly rather than through ShowUser; the most obvious of
these is in the title part of each transaction of a ticket; is there
any reason why this shouldn't go through the component too? It's one of
the places I'd like to hook my fancy popup into.

Thanks,

Olly

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todd at chaka

Jul 1, 2008, 8:57 AM

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Re: a fancy ShowUser - not quite possible [In reply to]

D) You can use the Mason request object to figure out where you were
called from and then "do the right thing."

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Olly Stephens <Olly.Stephens[at]arm.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've implemented a local fancier version of "Elements/ShowUserVerbose" -
> one that shows the username but then has a tooltip attached to it that
> shows more info about the user when you hover over it.
>
> This worked fine initially but then I noticed a problem - the "ShowUser"
> element is used in multiple contexts. For example, it's also used in
> Elements/SelectUsers to generate the options in a multiple select. In
> this situation I just want a simple name and my override mucks things
> up.
>
>
> I can think of two solutions to this so I thought I'd canvas people as
> to which would be the more likely to be adopted upstream if I provided a
> patch:
>
> A) Introduce a "ShowUserFancy" element which is used in cases where
> there is opportunity to enhance the HTML produced but who's default
> action is just to drop through to ShowUser (ie gives me a more specific
> hook to override)
>
> B) Add a "Context" parameter to the ShowUser calls so that I can tell if
> it's in the plain page or in a form element etc. (ie gives me the
> necessary info in my override to make a formatting decision)
>
> C) Abandon my attempt to do fancy things :-)
>
>
> Which would people prefer?
>
>
> Any whilst I'm on the subject, I noticed a few places where a username
> was rendered directly rather than through ShowUser; the most obvious of
> these is in the title part of each transaction of a ticket; is there
> any reason why this shouldn't go through the component too? It's one of
> the places I'd like to hook my fancy popup into.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Olly
>
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jesse at bestpractical

Jul 1, 2008, 9:51 AM

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Re: a fancy ShowUser - not quite possible [In reply to]

On Jul 1, 2008, at 6:57 PM, Todd Chapman wrote:

> D) You can use the Mason request object to figure out where you were
> called from and then "do the right thing."
>

I'd support a flag to ShowUser which says "you're being used somewhere
html isn't acceptable"

It needs a better name than that.

> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Olly Stephens
> <Olly.Stephens[at]arm.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've implemented a local fancier version of "Elements/
>> ShowUserVerbose" -
>> one that shows the username but then has a tooltip attached to it
>> that
>> shows more info about the user when you hover over it.
>>
>> This worked fine initially but then I noticed a problem - the
>> "ShowUser"
>> element is used in multiple contexts. For example, it's also used in
>> Elements/SelectUsers to generate the options in a multiple select.
>> In
>> this situation I just want a simple name and my override mucks things
>> up.
>>
>>
>> I can think of two solutions to this so I thought I'd canvas people
>> as
>> to which would be the more likely to be adopted upstream if I
>> provided a
>> patch:
>>
>> A) Introduce a "ShowUserFancy" element which is used in cases where
>> there is opportunity to enhance the HTML produced but who's default
>> action is just to drop through to ShowUser (ie gives me a more
>> specific
>> hook to override)
>>
>> B) Add a "Context" parameter to the ShowUser calls so that I can
>> tell if
>> it's in the plain page or in a form element etc. (ie gives me the
>> necessary info in my override to make a formatting decision)
>>
>> C) Abandon my attempt to do fancy things :-)
>>
>>
>> Which would people prefer?
>>
>>
>> Any whilst I'm on the subject, I noticed a few places where a
>> username
>> was rendered directly rather than through ShowUser; the most
>> obvious of
>> these is in the title part of each transaction of a ticket; is there
>> any reason why this shouldn't go through the component too? It's
>> one of
>> the places I'd like to hook my fancy popup into.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Olly
>>
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>> disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose,
>> or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you.
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Olly.Stephens at arm

Jul 1, 2008, 1:11 PM

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Re: a fancy ShowUser - not quite possible [In reply to]

Todd Chapman wrote:
>
> D) You can use the Mason request object to figure out where you were
> called from and then "do the right thing."

Thanks Todd; I hadn't actually thought of that option but it's a good one. Not sure it will work though; there's nothing to stop a component from using ShowUser in multiple contexts - haven't looked to see if any do - so it would be an imprecise solution.

Jesse Vincent wrote:
>
> I'd support a flag to ShowUser which says "you're being used somewhere
> html isn't acceptable"
>
> It needs a better name than that.

Cool. I'll add this to my TODO list then (both thinking of a name and creating a patch)

Olly

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todd at chaka

Jul 1, 2008, 7:53 PM

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Re: a fancy ShowUser - not quite possible [In reply to]

There is nothing to keep you from figuring out the complete call chain
and doing the right thing for each situation.

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Olly Stephens <Olly.Stephens[at]arm.com> wrote:
> Todd Chapman wrote:
>>
>> D) You can use the Mason request object to figure out where you were
>> called from and then "do the right thing."
>
> Thanks Todd; I hadn't actually thought of that option but it's a good one. Not sure it will work though; there's nothing to stop a component from using ShowUser in multiple contexts - haven't looked to see if any do - so it would be an imprecise solution.
>
> Jesse Vincent wrote:
>>
>> I'd support a flag to ShowUser which says "you're being used somewhere
>> html isn't acceptable"
>>
>> It needs a better name than that.
>
> Cool. I'll add this to my TODO list then (both thinking of a name and creating a patch)
>
> Olly
>
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