webgui/lib/WebGUI/Session/Form.pm
2006-07-11 09:05:22 +00:00

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package WebGUI::Session::Form;
=head1 LEGAL
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WebGUI is Copyright 2001-2006 Plain Black Corporation.
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Please read the legal notices (docs/legal.txt) and the license
(docs/license.txt) that came with this distribution before using
this software.
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http://www.plainblack.com info@plainblack.com
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=cut
use strict qw(vars subs);
use WebGUI::HTML;
=head1 NAME
Package WebGUI::Session::Form
=head1 DESCRIPTION
This is a convenience package to the individual form controls. It allows you to get the form post results back without having to load each form control seperately, instantiate an object, and call methods.
=head1 SYNOPSIS
use WebGUI::Session::Form;
my $fp = WebGUI::Session::Form->new($session);
$value = $fp->process("favoriteColor", "selectList", "black");
$value = $fp->someFormControlType("fieldName");
Example:
$value = $fp->text("title");
=head1 METHODS
These functions are available from this package:
=cut
#-------------------------------------------------------------------
=head2 AUTOLOAD ( )
Dynamically creates functions on the fly for all the different form control types.
=cut
sub AUTOLOAD {
our $AUTOLOAD;
my $self = shift;
my $name = ucfirst((split /::/, $AUTOLOAD)[-1]);
my $params = shift;
$params = {name=>$params} if ref ($params) ne "HASH";
my $cmd = "use WebGUI::Form::".$name;
eval ($cmd);
if ($@) {
$self->session->errorHandler->error("Couldn't compile form control: ".$name.". Root cause: ".$@);
return undef;
}
my $class = "WebGUI::Form::".$name;
return $class->new($self->session, $params)->getValueFromPost;
}
#-------------------------------------------------------------------
=head2 DESTROY ( )
Deconstructor.
=cut
sub DESTROY {
my $self = shift;
undef $self;
}
#-------------------------------------------------------------------
=head2 get ( )
An alias for process()
=cut
sub get {
my $self = shift;
return $self->process(@_);
}
#-------------------------------------------------------------------
=head2 new ( session )
Constructor.
=head3 session
A reference to the current session.
=cut
sub new {
my $class = shift;
my $session = shift;
bless {_session=>$session}, $class;
}
#-------------------------------------------------------------------
=head2 param ( [ field ] )
Returns all the fields from a form post as an array.
=head3 field
The name of the field to retrieve if you want to retrieve just one specific field.
=cut
sub param {
my $self = shift;
my $field = shift;
if ($field) {
if ($self->session->request) {
my @data = $self->session->request->body($field);
return wantarray ? @data : $data[0] if (scalar(@data));
@data = $self->session->request->param($field);
return wantarray ? @data : $data[0];
} else {
return undef;
}
} else {
if ($self->session->request) {
my @params = ();
foreach ($self->session->request->param) {
push(@params, $_);
}
foreach ($self->session->request->body) {
push(@params, $_);
}
return @params;
} else {
return undef;
}
}
}
#-------------------------------------------------------------------
=head2 paramsHashRef ( )
Gets a hash ref of all the params passed in to this class, and their values. This should not be confused with the param() method.
=cut
sub paramsHashRef {
my $self = shift;
unless ($self->{_paramsHashRef}) {
my %hash;
tie %hash, "Tie::IxHash";
foreach ($self->param) {
my @arr = $self->process($_);
$hash{$_} = (scalar(@arr) > 1)?\@arr:$arr[0];
}
$self->{_paramsHashRef} = \%hash;
}
return $self->{_paramsHashRef};
}
#-------------------------------------------------------------------
=head2 process ( name, type [ , default, params ] )
Returns whatever would be the expected result of the method type that was specified. This method also checks to make sure that the field is not returning a string filled with nothing but whitespace.
=head3 name
The name of the form variable to retrieve.
=head3 type
The type of form element this variable came from. Defaults to "text" if not specified.
=head3 default
The default value for this variable. If the variable is undefined then the default value will be returned instead.
=head3 params
A full set of form params just as you'd pass into any of the form controls when building it.
=cut
sub process {
my ($self, $name, $type, $default, $params) = @_;
$type = ucfirst($type);
return $self->param($name) if ($type eq "");
$params->{name} = $name;
if (wantarray) {
my @values = $self->$type($params);
if (scalar(@values) < 1 && ref $default eq "ARRAY") {
return @{$default};
} else {
return @values;
}
} else {
my $value = $self->$type($params);
unless (defined $value) {
return $default;
}
if ($value =~ /^[\s]+$/) {
return undef;
}
return $value;
}
}
#-------------------------------------------------------------------
=head2 session ( )
Returns a reference to the current session.
=cut
sub session {
my $self = shift;
return $self->{_session};
}
1;