sclass HCRUD_Concepts<A extends Concept> extends HCRUD_Data {
  Concepts cc = db_mainConcepts();
  Class<A> cClass;
  new L<IVF1<A>> onCreateOrUpdate;
  MapSO filters; // fields to filter by/add to new objects
  ValueConverterForField valueConverter;
  
  *(Class<A> *cClass) {}
  
  // XXX - breaking change from just shortName()
  S itemName() { ret humanizeShortName(cClass); }
  
  //LS fields() { ret conceptFields(cClass); }
  
  L<MapSO> list() {
    ret lambdaMap itemToMapForList(defaultSort(asList(listConcepts())));
  }
  
  Cl<A> listConcepts() {
    ret conceptsWhere(cc, cClass, mapToParams(filters));
  }
  
  L<A> defaultSort(L<A> l) { ret l; }
  
  MapSO emptyObject() {
    A c = unlisted(cClass);
    print("fieldOrder", getFieldOrder(c));
    ret printStruct("emptyObject", itemToMap(c));
  }
  
  MapSO itemToMap(A c) {
    if (c == null) null;
    ret putKeysFirst(getFieldOrder(c), conceptToMap_gen_withNullValues(c));
  }
  
  MapSO itemToMapForList(A c) {
    if (c == null) null;
    MapSO map = itemToMap(c);
    massageItemMapForList(c, map);
    ret map;
  }
  
  // overridable
  void massageItemMapForList(A c, MapSO map) {
  }
  
  MapSO getObject(O id) {
    ret itemToMap(getConcept(cc, cClass, toLong(id)));
  }
  
  O createObject(SS map) {
    A c = cnew(cc, cClass);
    cset(c, mapToParams(filters));
    setValues(c, map);
    pcallFAll(onCreateOrUpdate, c);
    ret c.id;
  }
  
  void setValues(A c, SS map) {
    if (valueConverter == null)
      cSmartSet(c, mapToParams(map));
    else
      cSmartSet_withConverter(valueConverter, c, mapToParams(map));
  }
  
  S updateObject(O id, SS map) {
    A c = getConcept(cc, cClass, toLong(id));
    if (c == null) ret "Object " + id + " not found";
    setValues(c, map);
    pcallFAll(onCreateOrUpdate, c);
    ret "Object " + id + " updated";
  }
  
  S deleteObject(O id) {
    A c = getConcept(cc, cClass, toLong(id));
    if (c == null) ret "Object not found";
    deleteConcept(c);
    ret "Object deleted";
  }
  
  HCRUD_Concepts<A> addFilter(S field, O value) {
    filters = orderedMapPutOrCreate(filters, field, value);
    this;
  }
  
  Renderer getRenderer(S field) {
    Class type = fieldType(cClass, field);
    if (eq(type, bool.class))
      ret new CheckBox();
    if (eq(type, Concept.Ref.class)) {
      Class<? extends Concept> c = getTypeArgumentAsClass(genericFieldType(cClass, field));
      ret new ComboBox(map(cc.list(c), val -> shorten(val.id + ": " + val)));
    }
    ret super.getRenderer(field);
  }
}