PLIP: Update pat-select2 to latest select2 in Plone 7

[petschki]

PLIP (Plone Improvement Proposal)

Responsible Persons

Proposer: Peter M. / petschki

Seconder: add your name here

Abstract

pat-select2 depends on an old and customized version of select2. Lets either

• update it to the latest version of select2 and get rid of the customizations.
• or create a new pattern with the latest version and deprecate the old one.

Motivation

Keep the Classic-UI stack up to date.

Proposal & Implementation

There are two possible implementations:

1. update pat-select2 to the latest select2 version and document the API changes.
2. create a new pattern pat-select which uses the latest version of select2 and remove pat-select2 with documentation how to migrate to the new pattern.

Deliverables

I've started upgrading pat-select2 here a while ago (plone/mockup#1295) but depending on the discussion here its maybe better to start off with a new pattern for the new version.

Risks

case 1: updateing pat-select2 -> the select2 API changes radically and addons will not work anymore.
case 2: adding new pattern: addons will also have to migrate their code to the new api

Participants

• petschki
• add your name here

@plone/classicui-team

[MrTango]

+1, this could event be done before 7.x, if the patter does not change it's behavior to the outside.