[patch][cla] FormContainer

[joose@…]

This is FormContainer widget.

Currently you create forms like this:

myContent='<form name="myForm">";
myContent+='<input type="text" name="name" value="'+obj.name'" />";
myContent+='<input type="text" id="birthday" date="'+dojo.date.format(new Date(obj.birthday),string)+'" />';
myContent+='<input type="button" onClick="myGet()" />';
myContent+='</form>'

function myGet() {
 var obj={};
 obj["name"]=dojo.byId('myForm').name.value;
 obj["birthday"]=dojo.widget.byId('birthday').datePicker.storedDate;
 ...
}

So it gets very complex and difficult when you have big and lot's of forms.

Now let's see about FormContainer.

It's purpose is to get/set values to/from object/form. To make it work with dropdowndatepicker, you need apply patch included in ticket #721.

This helps making forms. With this you can easily create "empty" forms like this:

<form dojoType="FormContainer" id="myForm">
 <input type="text" name="name" />
 <input type="text" name="birthday" dojoType="dropdowndatepicker" />
 <input type="button" onClick="myGet()" />
</form>

Then you define object (like, get from the server):

obj.name='Joose Vettenranta';
obj.birthday='11/22/2006';

Then you just command formcontainer:

dojo.widget.byId("myForm").setValues(obj);

When button is pressed, function could be like this:

function myGet() {
  var obj=dojo.widget.byId("myForm").getValues();
  ...
}

So easy!

And now it's very easy to do RAD-style development. Someone creates form, someone creates servers get/set thignies and someone creates stuff together in dojo with formcontainer.

[joose@…]

FormContainer.js, test-FormContainer.js and showposts.php

[dylan]

I hate to ask, but any chance you could update to use the new widget/package syntax?

[joose@…]

Yes it might be possible. Last few days I've been working to make formcontainer work better and got it working yesturday. Unfortunally most widgets don't have setValue() or anything similar, so formcontainer currently just works for DropdownDatePicker.. We definetly would need FormWidget class to say that we have to have set/getValue() functions.. I'll upload new version of formcontainer soon.

[joose@…]

Fixed bugs and made it work with RepeaterContainer and support for latest trunk syntax.

[dylan]

(In [5767]) references #845, new FormContainer widget, needs inline documentation

[dylan]

cleaned up, and checked in.

It would be nice if we could get a patch with inline documentation for this before we get to 0.4:

​http://dojo.jot.com/WikiHome/CodeCommentCompletenessTable

[anonymous]

Milestone 0.4 deleted