How do you create Pages and Views?

[SteveMaybe]

I'm planning on creating a larger "Todo" app example, since that seems to be the go-to in framework examples today.

Unfortunately, I'm not able to figure out how to get views and pages working, mind sharing a simple example? My intuition is telling me to implement the View / Page function such that you can build out something like:

type HomePage struct {
} 

func (p *HomePage) Page(r Router) .... 

But I'm not able to figure out what is needed to happen in Page/View.

[Splizard]

Pages

In Qlovaseed, pages are global views with special integration with the browser's navigation and paths.
To create a page, you need to implement the page interface:

type Page interface {
	Page(page.Router) seed.Seed
}

Here is an example, you should always return page.New from the Page method if possible.

//Create a type for the page, the type is used to globally identify the page.
type DemoPage struct {
	//Pages can take client-type arguments, defined as members of the page's struct type.
	Message client.String
}

func (demo DemoPage) Page(r page.Router) seed.Seed {
	return page.New(
		//The text is set to the value of the Message argument.
		text.New(text.SetStringTo(demo.Message)),
	)
}

//If you have access to a page.Router, you can 'Goto' a page and provide arguments.
router.Goto(DemoPage{
	Message: client.NewString("Hello World"),
})

In app.New, you will need to register the pages and set the main page:

app.New("Demo",
	page.AddPages(DemoPage{}),
	page.Set(DemoPage{}),
)

Views

Views in Qlovaseed allow for views in the app that can be swapped within a given page.
Views work similarly to Pages. Instead of a page interface, there is a view interface.

type View interface {
	View(view.Controller) seed.Seed
}

To add the view to a parent call:

//Example of a parent to add the view to.
column.New(
	view.Set(DemoView{}),
)

//If you have access to the view.Controller of the parent seed, you can 'Goto' a view and provide arguments.
controller.Goto(DemoView{})

[SteveMaybe]

Thanks for the help, and no rush! I PR'd a pages demo, and a best guess on views.

[Splizard]

I've updated the answer!

[SteveMaybe]

Awesome thank you! Going to push this into the Page / Views example PR I have up tomorrow.