webgui/lib/WebGUI/FormValidator.pm

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Perl

package WebGUI::FormValidator;
=head1 LEGAL
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WebGUI is Copyright 2001-2007 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::FormValidator
=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::FormValidator;
my $fp = WebGUI::FormValidator->new($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 ( params [, value ] )
Dynamically creates functions on the fly for all the different form control types. Returns their interpretation of a POST input field.
=head3 params
Either an href of parameters or the fieldName in question.
=head3 value
Optional. If present, then this value will be used instead of POST input (which is the default). May be a list of values, depending on the field type.
=cut
sub AUTOLOAD {
our $AUTOLOAD;
my $self = shift;
my $params = shift;
my @args = @_;
my $name = ucfirst((split /::/, $AUTOLOAD)[-1]);
$params = {name=>$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;
}
my $class = "WebGUI::Form::".$name;
return $class->new($self->session, $params)->getValueFromPost(@args);
}
#-------------------------------------------------------------------
=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;
}
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=head2 process ( paramsHref )
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 paramsHref
Required. An href of the following params...
=head4 name
The name of the form variable to retrieve.
=head4 type
The type of form element this variable came from. Defaults to "text" if not specified.
=head4 default
The default value for this variable. If the variable is undefined then the default value will be returned instead.
=head4 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 = shift;
my $args = shift || '';
die __PACKAGE__."::process requires an href" unless ref $args eq 'HASH';
my ($name, $type, $default, $params) = @$args{qw( name type default params )};
$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;
}
return $value;
}
}
#-------------------------------------------------------------------
=head2 session ( )
Returns a reference to the current session.
=cut
sub session {
my $self = shift;
return $self->{_session};
}
1;