Make changes to details.js. See commit message.

- Add/Remove links are now only available for multivalue
  attributes (Param.multivalue = true) and attributes with param
  types, that are multivalue by definition (as of now only List).
  Single-value attributes with no value are displayed as empty
  input elements.
- When updating an attribute, leading and trailing spaces are
  stripped
- Context help available in the form of hints, that are extracted
  form Param.hint.

install/static/details.js

@@ -93,16 +93,17 @@ function ipa_details_update(pkey, on_win, on_fail)
         var attr = dt.attr('title');
         if (!attr || attr.indexOf('call_') == 0)
             return;
+        var value = jQuery.trim(jobj.val());
 
         var param_info = ipa_get_param_info(attr);
         if (param_info) {
-	    modlist[attr] = jobj.val();
+            modlist[attr] = value;
             return;
         }
 
         if (!attrs_wo_option[attr])
             attrs_wo_option[attr] = [];
-	attrs_wo_option[attr].push(jobj.val());
+        attrs_wo_option[attr].push(value);
     });
 
     $('.entryattrs dt').each(function () {
@@ -209,6 +210,7 @@ function ipa_generate_dl(jobj, id, name, dts)
 /* HTML templates for ipa_details_display() */
 var _ipa_a_add_template =
     '<a href="jslink" onclick="return (_ipa_add_on_click(this))" title="A">Add</a>';
+var _ipa_span_doc_template = '<span class="attrhint">Hint: D</span>';
 
 /* populate definition lists with the class 'entryattrs' with entry attributes
  *
@@ -244,15 +246,42 @@ function ipa_details_display(entry_attrs)
                 jobj.after(_ipa_dd_first_template.replace('I', '-'));
         } else {
             /* title contains attribute name - default behaviour */
+            var multivalue = false;
+            var hint_span = '';
+
+            var param_info = ipa_get_param_info(attr);
+            if (param_info) {
+                if (param_info['multivalue'] || param_info['class'] == 'List')
+                    multivalue = true;
+                var hint = param_info['hint'];
+                if (hint)
+                    hint_span = _ipa_span_hint_template.replace('D', hint);
+            }
+
             var value = entry_attrs[attr];
             if (value) {
-		ipa_insert_first_dd(jobj, ipa_create_input(attr, value[0]));
+                ipa_insert_first_dd(
+                    jobj, ipa_create_input(attr, value[0]) + hint_span
+                );
                 for (var i = 1; i < value.length; ++i) {
                     jobj = jobj.next();
                     ipa_insert_other_dd(jobj, ipa_create_input(attr, value[i]));
                 }
+                if (multivalue) {
+                    ipa_insert_other_dd(
+                        jobj.next(), _ipa_a_add_template.replace('A', attr)
+                    );
+                }
             } else {
-		ipa_insert_first_dd(jobj, _ipa_a_add_template.replace('A', attr));
+                if (multivalue) {
+                    ipa_insert_first_dd(
+                        jobj, _ipa_a_add_template.replace('A', attr) + hint_span
+                    );
+                } else {
+                    ipa_insert_first_dd(
+                        jobj, ipa_create_input(attr, '') + hint_span
+                    );
+                }
             }
         }
     });
@@ -278,6 +307,7 @@ var _ipa_param_type_2_handler_map = {
     'Str': _ipa_create_text_input,
     'Int': _ipa_create_text_input,
     'Bool': _ipa_create_text_input,
+    'List': _ipa_create_text_input,
 };
 
 /* create an HTML element for displaying/editing an attribute
@@ -289,10 +319,7 @@ function ipa_create_input(attr, value)
     var param_info = ipa_get_param_info(attr);
     if (!param_info) {
         /* no information about the param is available, default to text input */
-	return (
-	    _ipa_create_text_input(attr, value, null) +
-	    _ipa_create_remove_link(attr, null)
-	);
+        return (_ipa_create_text_input(attr, value, null));
     }
 
     /* check if the param value can be modified */
@@ -302,11 +329,14 @@ function ipa_create_input(attr, value)
     /* call handler by param class */
     var handler = _ipa_param_type_2_handler_map[param_info['class']];
     if (handler) {
+        if (param_info['multivalue'] || param_info['class'] == 'List') {
             return (
                 handler(attr, value, param_info) +
                 _ipa_create_remove_link(attr, param_info)
             );
         }
+        return (handler(attr, value, param_info));
+    }
 
     /* no handler for this type? don't allow modification */
     return (value.toString());
@@ -355,10 +385,14 @@ function ipa_details_reset()
 function _ipa_add_on_click(obj)
 {
     var jobj = $(obj);
+    var attr = jobj.attr('title');
     var par = jobj.parent();
-    par.append(ipa_create_input(jobj.attr('title'), ''));
+
+    par.prepend(ipa_create_input(attr, ''));
+    ipa_insert_other_dd(par, _ipa_a_add_template.replace('A', attr));
     jobj.next('input').focus();
     jobj.remove();
+
     return (false);
 }
 
@@ -371,6 +405,8 @@ function _ipa_remove_on_click(obj)
     var next = par.next('dd');
     if (next.length) {
         if (par.hasClass('first')) {
+            var hint = par.children('span').detach();
+            next.append(hint);
             next.addClass('first');
             next.removeClass('other');
         }

install/static/ipa.css

@@ -182,6 +182,13 @@ div#backtotop {
     text-align: right;
 }
 
+span.attrhint {
+    font-size: 8pt;
+    left: 40em;
+    margin-left: 100px;
+    position: absolute;
+}
+
 
 /*Navigation */