Proposal for an acceptably minimal means for storing a list of values

[ssokolow]

One thing I find myself reinventing over and over again when using GM_config is a means to store a list of things (numeric IDs, tags, substrings to match, regular expressions) and I always wind up doing it with either a comma-separated text list that may be parsed into an int list internally or a "one entry per line" textarea.

While I understand your reasoning for not providing custom field types for everything and I understand not supporting the general case, supporting non-nested lists would massively expand the utility of the basic GM_config functionality with minimal code bloat.

What I propose is some kind of list_delimiter parameter that allows fields like text, int, float, and textarea to accept and validate comma- or newline-delimited input as appropriate.

...something akin to this Python code:

    list_delim = field_config.get('list_delimiter')
    if list_delim:
        field_val = field_val.split(list_delim)
    else:
        field_val = [field_val]

    for val in field_val:
        # Do the usual validation

Failing that, perhaps a clearly documented means for hooking in at various stages in the processing so I could wrap the equivalent JavaScript in a callback rather than reinventing the entire validation process?

[sizzlemctwizzle]

You could implement this as a custom field type. See the relevant wiki section and the example: Custom field types.

[ssokolow]

And my other comment?

Failing that, perhaps a clearly documented means for hooking in at various stages in the processing so I could wrap the equivalent JavaScript in a callback rather than reinventing the entire validation process?

[sizzlemctwizzle]

See this example

[ssokolow]

Thanks. :)