Search Bar reimplementation in SmartGWT

John Mazzitelli mazz at redhat.com
Mon Jun 4 14:51:40 UTC 2012


we need this re-implemented in smargwt. I'm a +1 in getting that done. It is one of the most important custom components in our UI, it should be using smartgwt along with everything else.

----- Original Message -----
> 
> I tried a while back to get around that "lost click" issue but
> eventually accepted that this was just a GWT/SmartGWT event model
> conflict.  Although reimplementing will be a bit of work, I think we
> need to do it.  The search bar is a critical component to the GUI and
> needs to work as designed.
> 
> A reimplementation should be careful to maintain hooks for adding
> Search
> capability to various pages.  Perhaps it could even be enhanced.  For
> example, it might be nice to have a search bar on the "Inventory"
> landing page.  I'm not sure that's possible today as I think we can
> only
> embed it in a Table view.  (I wouldn't go out of my way to support
> this,
> though).
> 
> Certainly it must maintain the same sort of incremental preview list,
> as
> well as saved search support.
> 
> I'm not sure if this re-work could at all lend itself towards using
> the
> search bar syntax for dynagroup definitions.  Again, I wouldn't go
> out
> of my way for this, it was just a thought.
> 
> On 6/4/2012 10:41 AM, mike thompson wrote:
> > The Search Bar Bug -- Search bar saved searches menu ignores clicks
> > [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=733487] appears to be
> > occurring because of GWT/SmartGWT event mismatch. It is advised in
> > the
> > SmartGWT document not to mix GWT with SmartGWT.
> >
> > The proposed solution here is to remove the native GWT widgets from
> > the codebase and re-implement the search bar functionality using
> > pure
> > SmartGWT widgets. This is the only case of native GWT widgets in
> > the
> > codebase so after removal of the search bar the code base would be
> > free of any native GWT widgets and will hopefully have a little
> > cleaner event model.
> >
> > Here is the specs for the search bar:
> > http://rhq-project.org/display/JOPR2/Search
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=733487
> >
> >
> > Any opinions on this?
> >
> >
> >
> > -- Mike Thompson
> >
> >
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