Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: gocept.jsform
Version: 0.5
Summary: Next generation forms in javascript
Home-page: https://bitbucket.org/gocept/gocept.jsform/
Author: Sebastian Wehrmann <sw@gocept.com>, Maik Derstappen <md@derico.de>
Author-email: sw@gocept.com
License: ZPL 2.1
Description: ==============================
        The gocept.jsform distribution
        ==============================
        
        JavaScript library for simple creation of forms in your clients browser. It
        just needs a JSON datastructure and creates a form with auto saving fields
        from it.
        
        Uses *knockout* for data-binding, *json-template* for templating and *jquery*
        for DOM manipulation and ajax calls.
        
        
        Requirements
        ============
        
        If you have a server using *fanstatic* to include resources, just do::
        
            from gocept.jsform.resource import jsform
            jsform.need()
        
        This will require all needed resources like *jquery*, *knockout*,
        *json-template*, widgets and the code to setup and run *gocept.jsform* itself.
        
        Without fanstatic, you should include the following resources by hand:
        
        * *helpers.js*
        * *widgets.js*
        * *jsform.js*
        
        You can find them in the ``resources`` directory in this package.
        
        
        Usage
        =====
        
        All you need to start creating forms is::
        
            <div id="replace_this_with_my_form"></div>
        
            <script type="text/javascript">
              var my_form = new gocept.jsform.Form('replace_this_with_my_form');
              my_form.load('/form_data.json');
            </script>
        
        This will inject the form in the container with the id
        ``replace_this_with_my_form``, load the form data via *ajax* from the url
        ``form_data.json`` and create input fields according to the content of
        ``form_data.json``.
        
        ``form.load()`` accepts javascript objects as data or a url (like in the
        example above). It then guesses, which field widget to load by means of the
        datatype of your field::
        
            my_form.load(
                {firstName: '', // will result in a input field with type="text"
                 title: [{id: 'mr', value: 'Mister'},
                         {id: 'mrs', value: 'Miss', selected: true}], // will result in a select box
                 needs_glasses: false}); // will result in a checkbox
        
        *gocept.jsform* comes with basic templates for these three use cases. Of cource
        you can provide your own templates for either the form or the fields itself.
        Please refer to the customization section for further information.
        
        
        Tests
        =====
        
        The tests are written in *jasmine* and run using selenium webdriver.
        
        
        Customization
        =============
        
        There are various options which can be passed to customize the HTML output and
        the behaviour of *gocept.jsform*.
        
        
        Providing a save url for the server
        -----------------------------------
        
        The great thing about *gocept.jsform* is, that it automatically pushes changes
        in your form fields to the server. For that to work you need to specify a url
        where *gocept.jsform* should propagate changes to::
        
            var form = new gocept.jsform.Form('my_form', {save_url: '/save.json'});
        
        On every change, the following information is pushed to that url:
        
        * ``id``: the name of the field (e.g. *firstname*)
        * ``value``: the new value for that field (e.g. *Bob*)
        
        The server should now validate the given data. If saving went fine, it must
        return ``{status: 'success'}``, if there was a (validation-) error, it must
        return e.g. ``{status: 'error', msg: 'Not a valid email address'}``. The error
        will then be displayed next to the widget.
        
        
        Customizing the form template
        -----------------------------
        
        The default behaviour is to simply append every new field in the form tag. If
        you would like to customize the order of your fields or just need another
        boilerplate for you form, you can use a custom form template with containers
        for all or just some of the fields::
        
            var template = new jsontemplate.Template(
              ['<form method="POST" action="{action}" id="{form_id}">',
               '<table><tr><td class="firstname"><span id="firstname" /></td>',
               '<td class="lastname"><span id="lastname" /></td></tr></table>',
               '</form>'].join(''),
              {default_formatter: 'html'});
        
            var form = new gocept.jsform.Form('my_form', {form_template: template});
            form.load({firstname: 'Max', lastname: 'Mustermann'});
        
        This will replace the ``span`` containers with id ``firstname`` and
        ``lastname`` with the appropriate ``input`` fields.
        
        
        Customizing field widgets
        -------------------------
        
        You can either customize widgets by their type (e.g. all fields rendered for
        strings) or customize single widgets by their name.
        
        Customization by field type
        +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
        
        You can overwrite the default templates by providing your own templates in the
        options dict passed during form initialization::
        
            var form = new gocept.jsform.Form(
              'my_form', {string_template: my_input_template,
                          object_template: my_select_template,
                          boolean_template: my_checkbox_template});
        
        For every string data, your input template would be rendered instead of the
        default input text field. Same for lists and boolean values.
        
        Customization by field name
        +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
        
        Imagine you want checkboxes instead of a select field::
        
            var template = new jsontemplate.Template(
              ['<div class="title">Titel:',
               '{.repeated section value}',
               '  <div>',
               '    <input type="radio" name="{name}" value="{id}" class="{id}"',
               '           data-bind="checked: {name}" /> {value}',
               '  </div>',
               '{.end}',
               '</div>'].join(''), {default_formatter: 'html'});
        
            var form = new gocept.jsform.Form('my_form');
            form.load({title: [{id: 'mr', value: 'Mr.'},
                               {id: 'mrs', value: 'Mrs.'}]},
                      {title: {template: template}});
        
        You can pass the *load* method a JS object containing customizations for each
        field. One of these customization options is template, which results in
        rendering two checkboxes instead of the default select box in the above
        example.
        
        You can also specify a label or other options for the fields::
        
            var template = new jsontemplate.Template(
              ['{label}: <input type="text" name="{name}" value="{default}"',
               '                data-bind="value: {name}" {readonly} />'].join(''),
              {default_formatter: 'html', undefined_str: ''});
        
            var form = new gocept.jsform.Form('my_form');
            form.load({firstname: 'Sebastian'},
                      {firstname: {template: template,
                                   label: 'First name',
                                   default: 'Max'}});
        
        .. image:: https://builds.gocept.com/job/gocept.jsform/badge/icon
          :target: https://builds.gocept.com/job/gocept.jsform/
        
        
        ========================
        Developing gocept.jsform
        ========================
        
        :Author:
            `Sebastian Wehrmann <http://gocept.com/>`_ <sw@gocept.com>
            `Maik Derstappen <http://derico.de/>`_ <md@derico.de>
        
        :Online documentation:
            http://pythonhosted.org/gocept.jsform/
        
        :PyPI page:
            http://pypi.python.org/pypi/gocept.jsform/
        
        :Issues:
            https://bitbucket.org/gocept/gocept.jsform/issues
        
        :Source code:
            https://bitbucket.org/gocept/gocept.jsform/
        
        :Current change log:
            https://bitbucket.org/gocept/gocept.jsform/raw-file/tip/CHANGES.txt
        
        
        ============================
        Change log for gocept.jsform
        ============================
        
        0.5 (2013-09-06)
        ================
        
        - Declare ``for`` attribute on form labels.
        
        - Store "save on change" subscriptions so they can be cancelled.
        
        - Ignore ``null`` values for data fields. (#1)
        
        
        0.4 (2013-08-27)
        ================
        
        - Made it possible to define templates as template files on file system.
        
        
        0.3 (2013-08-27)
        ================
        
        - Add events ``after-load`` and ``after-save``.
        
        - Fix ``JSON`` serialization to be able to handle Knockout observables.
        
        - Added ``reload`` functionality to the form class.
        
        
        0.2 (2013-08-26)
        ================
        
        - Made it possible to preselect values in arrays when the form is rendered.
        
        - Changed form submit behaviour:
        
          - Default submit type is not ``POST`` instead of ``GET``. (Change it with the
            ``save_type`` option)
        
          - Data is now submitted as ``JSON`` type.
        
        
        0.1 (2013-08-17)
        ================
        
        initial release
        
Keywords: form javascript jquery client
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: Zope Public License
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2 :: Only
