# PODNAME: Bread::Board::Manual::Example::FormSensible
# ABSTRACT: A Form::Sensible and Catalyst example.

__END__

=pod

=head1 NAME

Bread::Board::Manual::Example::FormSensible - A Form::Sensible and Catalyst example.

=head1 VERSION

version 0.27

=head1 SYNOPSIS

  __PACKAGE__->config(
      # ... your other Catalyst configs ...

      # first put our universal
      # FormBuilder container
      # inside the config
      FormBuilder => container 'FormBuilder' => [ 'Fields' ] => as {
          service 'Form' => (
              class => 'Form::Sensible',
              block => sub {
                  my $s      = shift;
                  my $c      = $s->parent;
                  my $fields = $c->get_sub_container('Fields');
                  my $form   = Form::Sensible::Form->new( name => $s->param('name') );
                  foreach my $name ( $fields->get_service_list ) {
                      $form->add_field(
                          $fields->get_service( $name )->get
                      );
                  }

                  if ( my $state = $s->param('state') ) {
                      $form->set_values( $state );
                  }

                  $form;
              },
              parameters => {
                  name  => { isa => 'Str'                    },
                  state => { isa => 'HashRef', optional => 1 },
              }
          );
      },

      # Then we can build a set of
      # Fields for the 'foo' form
      Fields => {
          foo => container 'FooFields' => [ 'Model' ] => as {

                service 'Username' => (
                    class => 'Form::Sensible::Field::Text',
                    block => sub {
                        Form::Sensible::Field::Text->new(
                            name       => 'username',
                            validation => { regex => qr/^[0-9a-z]*$/ }
                        );
                    }
                );

                service 'Password' => (
                    class => 'Form::Sensible::Field::Text',
                    block => sub {
                        Form::Sensible::Field::Text->new(
                            name         => 'password',
                            render_hints => {
                                'HTML' => {
                                    field_type => 'password'
                                }
                            }
                        );
                    }
                );

                service 'Submit' => (
                    class => 'Form::Sensible::Field::Trigger',
                    block => sub {
                        Form::Sensible::Field::Trigger->new(
                            name => 'submit'
                        );
                    }
                );

                service 'AccessLevel' => (
                    class => 'Form::Sensible::Field::Select',
                    block => sub {
                        my $s = shift;
                        my $select = Form::Sensible::Field::Select->new(
                             name => 'access_level',
                        );
                        foreach my $access_level ( $s->param('schema')->resultset('AccessLevels')->all ) {
                            $select->add_option(
                                $access_level->id,
                                $access_level->name
                            );
                        }
                        $select;
                    },
                    dependencies => {
                        schema => depends_on('Model/schema') ,
                    },
                );
            }
      }
  );


  # later, in a
  # catalyst action ...
  sub process_foo : Local {
      my ($self, $c) = @_;
      my $Model = container 'Model' => as { service 'schema' => $c->model('DBIC') };
      my $Form  = $c->config->{FormBuilder}->create(
          Fields => $c->config->{Fields}->{foo}->create(
              Model => $Model
          )
      );

      my $f = $Form->resolve(
          service    => 'Form',
          parameters => {
              name  => 'foo',
              state => $c->req->parameters
          }
      );

      my $result = $f->validate;

      if ($result->is_valid) {
          # ...
      }
      else {
          # ...
      }
  }

=head1 DESCRIPTION

This example came out of a discussion with Jay Kuri about how Bread::Board
might be used in conjunction with his Form::Sensible module.

My idea was to create a generic form builder which is parameterized by
a Fields container. This could be used to store all kind of application
wide behaviors. Since this in the context of Catalyst it made sense to
me for this to be stuffed into the Catalyst config hash. I also decided
to use service parameters in the Form service, this allows you to
pass in a specific name and to optionally pass in a captured state
to the Form::Sensible::Form instance that is being created.

The next idea was that the Fields container parameter could be created
for each specific form in the application. In the above example all
the services are hardcoded, but this could be made more re-usable
using the C<include> keyword from Bread::Board itself, or some degree
of subclassing of the Container objects.

Jay also asked about passing in the Catalyst model into the fields so
that he could populate something like a select pulldown menu. Again I
used parameterized modules, in this case we parameterized the FooFields
container with a Model container which had a schema service (which was
a DBIx::Class schema object).

From here we move into a Catalyst action to show how this might be used.
We start out by wrapping the Catalyst DBIC model with a simple container,
and then proceed to build our C<$Form> object. The C<$Form> is a
Bread::Board container born of 3 levels of parameterized containers, it
is worth spending a little time pondering exactly what is happening there.

So once we have the C<$Form> container, all we need to do is create an
instance of our Form::Sensible::Form, passing in the name and the captured
state.

This example could likely be expanded even further to show the use of
the Form::Sensible rendering as well. Further creative use of parameterized
containers and a couple utility methods in the Catalyst controllers
could produce fairly robust and easy to use API for an application.

=head1 AUTHOR

Stevan Little <stevan@iinteractive.com>

=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Infinity Interactive.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

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