[opencms-dev] Form generator

[Thomas Schmidt]

Hello,
sorry - I have overseen your reply. 

I would like to have my setup as clean as possible - and not load the packages „com.alkacon.opencms.formgenerator“ as it depends on many resources (tags, …)  from „alkacon.mercury.template“.
If I would load „alkacon.mercury.template“ package - I would get all the Formatters/Schemas etc from „alkacon.mercury“ which would make IMHO my project quite messy.
In my opinion the dependency from "com.alkacon.opencms.formgenerator“  of „alkacon.mercury.template“ is a bit sad - because it prevents just to use the Formgenerator as it is.

I tried also the old v8 Formgenerator (which works perfectly in an old setup of mine) - however now with newer Java the Binaries are not working anymore (it complains e.g. about untyped lists and other untyped data structures). I tried as well to compile it again and try to fix those issues - however the newer gradle doesn’t want to proceed either (there seem to be a significant step between gradle <4 and the higher versions).

Additionally I’m quite challenged to understand the mechanism and the relation of the alkacon.mercury.webform.* and how it could be integrated in a simple way into an own webform package. 

At the moment i’m stuck in the decision doing something new from scratch (a lot of work, while something already working potentially there), doing a „Frankenstein“ version by using alkacon.mercury.webform.* partially - because it is hard to understand how to integrate (I dislike Frankensteins ;-) and that kind of ugly solution)  or trying to get the old (may V8?!) code running in that new OpenCMS 11/Tomcat10/Java11 Environment …


Any further advises are more than welcome

Thanks for all your answers so far

Kind Regards
ThomasS




> Am 04.02.2021 um 11:51 schrieb Schliemann, Kai <K.Schliemann at comundus.com>:
> 
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> we are currently working on a OpenCms 11 project and planned to use the "Mercury template formgenerator".
> Would be great, if we could share experiences on that.
> Would you mind telling me, what your problem was on separating the generator from the Mercury template?
> 
> Best regards
> Kai