Dynamic Client-side Configuration Processing

Note

This API is rather low-level and still experimental, we might change some of the implementation details or compliment it with a more high-level API.

All configuration values that begin with ClientEval: are dynamically evaluated on the client side. They are written in plain JavaScript (evaluated with eval) and have node variable in the scope pointing to the currently focused node, with all transient inspector changes applied. For now it is only related to the nodetypes inspector configuration, but in the future may be extended to the other parts of the user interface.

A few Practical Examples

Hiding one property when the other one is not set

Here is an example how to hide the property borderColor if borderWidth is empty by changing its group name to a non-existant value:

'Some.Package:NodeType':
  properties:
    borderWidth:
      type: integer
      ui:
        inspector:
          group: 'style'
    borderColor:
      type: string
      ui:
        inspector:
          hidden: 'ClientEval:node.properties.borderWidth ? true : false

Dependent SelectBoxes

If you are using select box editors with data sources (see Data sources for more details) you can use client-side processing to adjust dataSourceAdditionalData when properties are changed in the inspector. The following example demonstrates this. It defines two properties (serviceType and contractType) where changes to the first property cause the searchTerm on the second properties’ data source to be updated. That in turn triggers a refresh of the available options from the data source.

properties:
  serviceType:
    type: string
    ui:
      label: 'Service Type'
      inspector:
        group: product
        editor: 'Content/Inspector/Editors/SelectBoxEditor'
        editorOptions:
          allowEmpty: true
          placeholder: 'Service Type'
          dataSourceIdentifier: 'acme-servicetypes'
  contractType:
    type: string
    ui:
      label: 'Contract Type'
      inspector:
        group: product
        editor: 'Content/Inspector/Editors/SelectBoxEditor'
        editorOptions:
          allowEmpty: true
          placeholder: 'Contract Type'
          dataSourceIdentifier: 'acme-contracttypes'
          dataSourceAdditionalData:
            searchTerm: 'ClientEval:node.properties.serviceType'