Lee Kelleher leekelleher

Exploring the 'Template Animation' concept

The pursuit of a "logic-less templating system"... or couldn't we just use plain-old HTML?

Food for thought

Template Animation - Your templating engine sucks and everything you have ever written is spaghetti code
Enforcing Strict Model-View Separation in Template Engines (Terence Parr)
Jawher Moussa on templating, and a shameless plug of Moulder
- More on "Moulder in action"
Diazo - a theme engine framework

uComponents - Data List

The idea is to have a provider-based property-editor for various data list types. To have a separation between the UI (editor control) and the data-source. e.g. a DropDownList shouldn't care where the data comes from, only that it's available and consistent.

Data List (types of)

DropDownList
CheckBoxList
AutoComplete
Templatable List

Here is an example of using Ditto to map an Archetype property to custom POCO model/type.

Let's say that we have an Archetype to represent some SEO meta-data, and we'll call the DocType property "metaData".

We'd have 3 properties in the Archetype:

metaTitle
metaDescription

	using System;
	using System.Collections.Generic;
	using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
	using umbraco.cms.businesslogic.datatype;

	namespace Our.Umbraco.DataTypes
	{
	public class LondonBoroughs : AbstractDataEditor
	{
	private DropDownList m_Control = new DropDownList();

	using Umbraco.Core;
	using Umbraco.Core.Services;
	using Umbraco.Web.Mvc;
	using Umbraco.Web.Routing;

	namespace Our.Umbraco
	{
	public class MyApplication : ApplicationEventHandler
	{
	protected override void ApplicationStarting(UmbracoApplicationBase umbracoApplication, ApplicationContext applicationContext)

	-- Copied from Hendy https://our.umbraco.org/forum/umbraco-7/using-umbraco-7/72814-creating-a-list-of-unused-doc-types#comment-233729
	-- Find all unused docTypes
	-- These results may contain docTypes that are masters of used ones, so need to exclude these too...

	SELECT
	A.nodeId as 'DocTypeId',
	B.text AS 'Name',
	A.alias AS 'Alias'
	FROM
	cmsContentType A LEFT JOIN

	using System.Collections.Generic;
	using System.Linq;
	using Umbraco.Core;
	using Umbraco.Core.Models;
	using Umbraco.Core.PropertyEditors;
	using Umbraco.Core.Xml;

	namespace Umbraco.Web.PropertyEditors
	{
	[PropertyEditor(Constants.PropertyEditors.XPathDropDownListAlias, "XPath DropDownList", "dropdown", ValueType = "INT")]

	using System.Linq;
	using Umbraco.Core;
	using Umbraco.Core.Logging;
	using Umbraco.Web;
	using Umbraco.Web.Routing;

	namespace uComponents.ContentFinders
	{
	public class PageNotFoundContentFinder : IContentFinder
	{

	<!doctype html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<title>Test display of HTML elements</title>
	</head>
	<body>
	<h1>Testing display of HTML elements</h1>
	<h2>This is 2nd level heading</h2>
	<p>This is a test paragraph.</p>
	<h3>This is 3rd level heading</h3>

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