Hi Thomas!

This is not possible. Actually, the metadata handling is totally separated from the UI though it must be possible to load the script file defined. I tried this on a local installation and the error message that is showed in the console log seems clear enough to be able to fix the error if it occurs:

Thanks for replying.

The reason for why I want this feature to be handled by the UI:

* Addon #1 includes a EditorDescriptor and the .js-files

* Addon #2, not actually dependent on #1, but if #1 exists it would like to use a Editor (with different metadata) from #1

In #2 I want to use the Editor from #1 but with other metadata. I therefore created a new EditorDescriptor (and UIHint) in #2 and pointing to the Editor with using the the ClientEditingClass as in #1.

This works fine as long as #1 is also installed in the application, but I want #2 to be independent of #1 and therefore I just want the UI to fallback to the default Editor when the ClientEditingClass does not exist.

If I could find a way to pass in metadata with just assigning a UIHint on the property the problem would be solved as UIHint will fallback if there are no EditorDescriptor and ClientEditingClass defined for it.

Found a solution! :)

    [EditorDescriptorRegistration(UIHint = "myhint", TargetType = typeof(string))]
    public class TextDescriptor : EditorDescriptor
    {
        public TextDescriptor()
        {
            ClientEditingClass = "mymodule.myeditor.Editor";
        }


        public override void ModifyMetadata(ExtendedMetadata metadata, IEnumerable<Attribute> attributes)
        {
            var uiHintAttribute = metadata.Attributes.OfType<UIHintAttribute>().FirstOrDefault();
            object myValue;
            uiHintAttribute.ControlParameters.TryGetValue("myKey", out myValue);
            base.ModifyMetadata(metadata, attributes);
            metadata.EditorConfiguration.Add("myProperty", myValue ?? "defaultValue");
        }
    }

Then use this EditorDescriptor with UIHint and pass in a control parameter:

        [UIHint("myhint", null, "myKey", "myValue")]
        public virtual string MyString { get; set; }