FormManager/MForms Extensibilty

[Ronald Kayondo]

Hi Devs,

Am currently trying to update the workflow mobile client with mforms client and I have kinda hit a wall. :(

In the former openxdata mobile client the FormManger allowed registering of FormEventListeners which would enable one to manipulate a form before/after it is saved or before/after it is deleted. This allowed manipulation of a form  without the necessity to manually edit the core code. To show a form in the old mobile client all one had to do was to call  FormManager.showForm(..., formData,,,,,, currentDisplay);This functionality allowed easily extending the mobile client. 

In the current mforms-client this logic seems to have changed/removed and I was wondering whether there is an alternative way I could easily render a form given a certain formData object.

These are options I have thought about,

1.Try to put back the FormEventListener logic.

Problem: This would require quite some changes in the core code.

2. Write my custom standalone Form Runner which is independent of EpihandyController, FormManager and Model object.This will be a highly reusable MobileForm Runner since any class will be able to use it even in future.

Problem: This would lead to code duplication.

Looking forward for your Input as I would like to avoid duplicating any code and have a system that is easy to maintain.

Thanx in advance,

Ronald.

[Mark Gerard]

Ronald,

I am not entirely sure what was removed when the code was re factored but we could probably identify missing functionality and create tickets?

Mark

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