Item10960: Implement a bibtex formfield type

-- PaulHarvey - 11 Jul 2011

Regarding the field 'type' bibtex. It will always be of the form bibtex or bibtex+..... It will never start with text or textarea.

This is because Foswiki::Form only considers the first part of the type field, up to but excluding the first + sign. So bibtex+foo will cause Foswiki::Form to use Foswiki::Form::Bibtex to render that field.

If you have textarea+bibtex, the Foswiki::Form::Bibtex package will never be called (to handle the field for rendering). It will use Foswiki::Form::Textarea to handle rendering of the field, and that package will ignore the +bibtex part.

So, please think of the +foo parts as modifiers or flags. And the first part of the field type as the root type for that field.

So, on that note, to be forward-compatible with future, not invented-yet bibtex+ forms, we should really test for flags using a regex, something like

if ($fieldType =~ /\+atom\b/) { $isAtomType = 1; }

-- PaulHarvey - 23 Jul 2011

Ok. Good to know thanks. So then I would have to some query the '+atom' modifier to descide whether it should be rendered as text or textfield and do this withing Foswiki::Form::Bibtex?! Problem is that there are a couple of atom-fields that are better rendered as textfields such as 'abstract' and 'note'. How would we handle the rendering these?

-- MichaelMell - 23 Jul 2011

We could just do bibtex+textarea, bibtex+text, bibtex+field+textarea, bibtex+atom+text etc.

-- PaulHarvey - 23 Jul 2011

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