ui Reuse Dropdown as much as possible in Lookup

This is a feature request to reuse Dropdown as much as possible in Lookup.

I understand that in the future that Lookup can be more than simple dropdown so I propose not extending Dropdown directly but reusing the the Dropdown component as much as possible. Currently lot of the base code is shared which is hard to maintain.

Mar 27 '20 19:03 mvorisek

Actually, DropDown and Lookup are both extending Input. In fact Lookup should be an extension of DropDown. They use the same Fomantic-Ui dropdown module at their base but Lookup use the api configuration of the module to perform server query.

Mar 27 '20 20:03 ibelar

In fact Lookup should be an extension of DropDown.

I am 100% ok with that. I proposed to wrap it as in the feature Lookup (at least from its name) can be much richer UI element like element with preview of the linked/lookuped value etc.

Mar 27 '20 20:03 mvorisek

we might have some functionality duplication - similarly to Modal and jsModal - there are some differences and possible that certain things will be discontinued and removed later on. Refactoring is not a huge priority and probably should wait until we've done with https://github.com/atk4/data/pull/375

Mar 29 '20 21:03 romaninsh

also reuse it in Multiline, prerender it /wo value for vue

Nov 21 '22 17:11 mvorisek