Changing submit policy of QDataWidgetMapper to AutoSubmit because if multiple changes are made at once not all of them are applied.

dialogs/abstractdialog.cpp

@@ -6,12 +6,12 @@
 #include <QScreen>
 #include <QVBoxLayout>
 
-AbstractDialog::AbstractDialog(QWidget* parent)
+AbstractDialog::AbstractDialog(QDialogButtonBox::StandardButtons buttons, QWidget* parent)
     : QDialog(parent) {
   setWindowTitle(tr("Dialog does what?..."));
   setModal(true);
 
-  m_buttonBox = new QDialogButtonBox(QDialogButtonBox::Ok | QDialogButtonBox::Cancel);
+  m_buttonBox = new QDialogButtonBox(buttons, this);
   connect(m_buttonBox, &QDialogButtonBox::accepted, this, &AbstractDialog::accept);
   connect(m_buttonBox, &QDialogButtonBox::rejected, this, &AbstractDialog::reject);
 

dialogs/abstractdialog.h

@@ -2,15 +2,15 @@
 #define ABSTRACTDIALOG_H
 
 #include <QDialog>
+#include <QDialogButtonBox>
 
 class QGridLayout;
-class QDialogButtonBox;
 class QVBoxLayout;
 
 class AbstractDialog : public QDialog {
   Q_OBJECT
  public:
-  AbstractDialog(QWidget* parent = nullptr);
+  AbstractDialog(QDialogButtonBox::StandardButtons buttons, QWidget* parent = nullptr);
   virtual void createContent() = 0;
 
   /// QDialog interface

dialogs/edititemdialog.cpp

@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 #include "edititemdialog.h"
 
+#include <QDialogButtonBox>
 #include <QVBoxLayout>
 
 #include "../views/itemdetailmapper.h"
 
 EditItemDialog::EditItemDialog(QTableView* tableView, QWidget* parent)
-    : AbstractDialog(parent)
+    : AbstractDialog(QDialogButtonBox::Close, parent)
     , m_tableView(tableView) {}
 
 void EditItemDialog::createContent() {

dialogs/newitemdialog.cpp

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 #include "model/metadata.h"
 
 NewItemDialog::NewItemDialog(QWidget* parent)
-    : AbstractDialog(parent) {}
+    : AbstractDialog(QDialogButtonBox::Ok | QDialogButtonBox::Cancel, parent) {}
 
 void NewItemDialog::createContent() {
   if (m_contentContainer) {
@@ -21,7 +21,9 @@ void NewItemDialog::createContent() {
 
   m_contentContainer = new QWidget(this);
 
-  // REFACTOR deduce label names and types from meta data & use a factory
+  // REFACTOR use a data structure for input widgets which can be iterated through
+  //        using a factory which iterates through the roles from metadata.h
+  //        and create the input widgets based on the data type of this role
   m_nameLabel = new QLabel("&Name");
   m_nameEdit  = new QLineEdit();
   m_nameLabel->setBuddy(m_nameEdit);
@@ -63,6 +65,8 @@ void NewItemDialog::createContent() {
 
 void NewItemDialog::accept() {
   QHash<int, QVariant> itemValues;
+  // TODO (after refactoring data structure for input widgets) use iteration through the relevant
+  //    roles and their input widgets
   itemValues.insert(NameRole, m_nameEdit->text());
   itemValues.insert(DescriptionRole, m_descriptionEdit->text());
   itemValues.insert(InfoRole, m_infoEdit->text());