moving reference into API package and testing API based approach

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 57 deletions

diff --git a/content/reference.go b/content/reference.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 0853b3d..0000000
--- a/content/reference.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
-package content
-
-import (
-	"encoding/json"
-	"fmt"
-	"log"
-
-	"github.com/bosssauce/ponzu/management/editor"
-	"github.com/bosssauce/ponzu/system/api"
-)
-
-// Referenceable enures there is a way to reference the implenting type from
-// within another type's editor and from type-scoped API calls
-type Referenceable interface {
-	Referenced() []byte
-}
-
-// Select returns the []byte of a <select> HTML element plus internal <options> with a label.
-// IMPORTANT:
-// The `fieldName` argument will cause a panic if it is not exactly the string
-// form of the struct field that this editor input is representing
-func Select(fieldName string, p interface{}, attrs map[string]string, contentType string) []byte {
-	ct, ok := Types[contentType]
-	if !ok {
-		log.Println("Cannot reference an invalid content type:", contentType)
-		return nil
-	}
-
-	// get a handle to the underlying interface type for decoding
-	t := ct()
-
-	// decode all content type from db into options map
-	// map["?type=<contentType>&id=<id>"]t.String()
-	options := make(map[string]string)
-	// jj := db.ContentAll(contentType + "__sorted") // make this an API call
-	jj := api.ContentAll(contentType)
-
-	for i := range jj {
-		err := json.Unmarshal(jj[i], t)
-		if err != nil {
-			log.Println("Error decoding into reference handle:", contentType, err)
-		}
-
-		// make sure it is an Identifiable
-		item, ok := t.(Identifiable)
-		if !ok {
-			log.Println("Cannot use type", contentType, "as a reference since it does not implement Identifiable")
-			return nil
-		}
-
-		k := fmt.Sprintf("?type=%s&id=%d", contentType, item.ItemID())
-		v := item.String()
-		options[k] = v
-	}
-
-	return editor.Select(fieldName, p, attrs, options)
-}