Hobo Hobo → Hobo 1.0 - Final

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  Bryan Larsen January 29th, 2010 @ 09:22 PM

  To get it to work, inherit directly from String rather than DelegateClass(String).

  I know that DelegateClass is required for some rich types, but I can't remember why. I'll update the documentation.

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  Bryan Larsen January 30th, 2010 @ 02:57 PM

  • Milestone set to “Hobo 1.0 - Final”
  • Tag changed from “rich-types” to “documentation, rich-types”
  • Assigned user set to “Bryan Larsen”
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  Owen January 30th, 2010 @ 03:33 PM

  Mmmm. Bryan, what would be the proper code to create a new Hobo field type called "list_of_values", or "value_list" that has the same behavior as enum_string:

  field do
  
    region :list_of_values('North','South",'East','West')
  
  end
  

  (or use symbols for the value list.)

  The term "List of Values" or "LOV" is very common in the BI world...

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  Matt Jones January 30th, 2010 @ 05:10 PM

  I'll have to poke around the old archives, but I believe the DelegateClass stuff is needed for types that don't have a proper constructor (DateTime is one; Fixnum is another).

  Re: the list_of_values thing, you could just alias enum_string to list_of_values:

  HoboFields::FieldDeclarationDsl.class_eval { alias :list_of_values :enum_string }
  

  That will get you the behavior you've shown (minus the : on list_of_values)

  On a semi-related note - should we register the name passed with :name to EnumString with register_type? It would seem pretty logical, and make using named enum_strings even easier.

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  Owen January 30th, 2010 @ 05:39 PM

  Thanks, Matt. That would be cool...

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  Bryan Larsen February 18th, 2010 @ 09:38 PM

  • State changed from “new” to “resolved”

  (from [5d53e75fa948bfe1bb0a143f87ecf89380291ace]) [#611 state:resolved] update documentation for rich types http://github.com/tablatom/hobo/commit/5d53e75fa948bfe1bb0a143f87ec...