[annotator-dev] issues working against master

Fri Apr 11 18:44:58 UTC 2014

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Steph Skardal <steph at endpoint.com> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
>
> On 04/11/2014 02:15 PM, Randall Leeds wrote:
>
>
>> How many representations are needed?
>>
>>  The way you've described it almost sounds like three:
>>  1) Stored
>>  2) In memory, for annotator
>>  3) In memory, for your UI
>>
>>  How often do you have to go back and forth between 2 and 3? Whenever
>> the edit button is clicked, the editor is saved, etc? Before or after the
>> annotation is shown in a viewer?
>>
>>  Does annotator.editor.subscribe('save') help?
>>
>
> Reading this out loud, I have the reaction that I should simplify my
> implementation. I'd like to have one array of hashes, which is the format
> that annotator stores in memory and the backend server receives. The editor
> is modified to reflect the array of hashes. When the "save" button is
> clicked, the user interface is then translated to the array of hashes.
>
> I think there are 2 states. I think this sort of relates to the bigger
> picture challenging of decoupling the UI, where I have an advanced UI that
> can't use simple serialization for form submission, but I just am in need
> of a way to convert back and forth between states.
>

I'm having trouble following this. It'd be great if you could hop on IRC
sometime or get me via hangout and we can figure it out.
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