NAME

Dancer::Plugin::FormValidator - Easy validates user input (usually from an HTML form) based on input profile for Dancer applications.

VERSION

version 1.131620

SYNOPSIS

    use Dancer;
    use Dancer::Plugin::FormValidator;

    get '/contact/form' => sub {
        my $input_hash = {
            Name    => $params->{name},
            Subject => $params->{subject},
            Body    => $params->{body},
        };

        my $error = form_validator_error( 'profile_contact', $input_hash );

        if ( ! $error ) {
            #the user provided complete and validates
            # data it's cool to proceed
        }
    };

    dance;

Example of profile file:

     {
         profile_contact => {
             'required' => [ qw(
                 Name Subject Body
              )],
              msgs => {
                missing => 'Not Here',
              }
         },
     }

Example with yml format:

    profile_contact:
      required:
        - name
        - subject
        - body
      msgs:
        missing: Not here

Example with json format:

    {
        "profile_contact": {
            "required": [
                "name",
                "subject",
                "body"
            ],
            "msgs": {
                "missing": "Not here"
            }
        }
    }

DESCRIPTION

Provides an easy validates user input based on input profile (Data::FormValidator) keyword within your Dancer application.

METHODS

form_validator_error

    form_validator_error('profile_name');
or
    form_validator_error('profile_name', $input);

Validate forms.

    input: (Str): Name of profile
           (HashRef): Data to be validated (optional) if is not present
                      getting params implicitly
    output: (HashRef): Field was missing or invalid or return 0 if all field is
                       valid

dfv

    if ( my $results = dfv('profile_name') ) {
        Do some stuff
    }
    else {
        Report some failure
    }
or
    if ( my $results = dfv ('profile_name', $input) ) {
        Do some stuff
    }
    else {
        Report some failure
    }

Validate forms.

    input: (Str): Name of profile
           (HashRef): Data to be validated (optional) if is not present
                      getting params implicitly
    output: A Data::FormValidator::Results object

CONFIGURATION

     plugins:
         FormValidator:
             profile_file: 'profile.pl'
             halt: 0
             msg:
                 single: 'Missing field'
                 several: 'Missing fields'

For the profile file it's possible to use json, yml or pl format. The halt option is only available with form_validator_error function, if you don't use halt option, a hashref is return with name of fields for the key and reason of the value use msgs profile, if you missing specified a msgs in a profil, msg single is use. The profile file it begins at the application root. The default of profile_file name is profile.yml

CONTRIBUTING

This module is developed on Github at:

http://github.com/hobbestigrou/Dancer-Plugin-FormValidator

Feel free to fork the repo and submit pull requests

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Alexis Sukrieh and Franck Cuny

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests in github.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc Dancer::Plugin::FormValidator

SEE ALSO

Dancer Data::FormValidator Dancer::Plugin::DataFormValidator

AUTHOR

Natal Ngétal

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Natal Ngétal.

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

cpanm Dancer::Plugin::FormValidator

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Dancer::Plugin::FormValidator