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> {-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
> {-# OPTIONS_GHC -fno-warn-unused-do-bind #-}
> import Control.Applicative ((<$>), (<*>))
> import Data.Maybe (isJust)
> import Data.Text (Text)
> import Text.Blaze ((!))
> import qualified Data.Text as T
> import qualified Happstack.Server as Happstack
> import qualified Text.Blaze.Html5 as H
> import qualified Text.Blaze.Html5.Attributes as A
> import Text.Digestive
> import Text.Digestive.Blaze.Html5
> import Text.Digestive.Happstack
> import Text.Digestive.Util
Simple forms and validation
---------------------------
Let's start by creating a very simple datatype to represent a user:
> data User = User
> { userName :: Text
> , userMail :: Text
> } deriving (Show)
And dive in immediately to create a `Form` for a user. The `Form v m a` type
has three parameters:
- `v`: the type for messages and errors (usually a `String`-like type, `Text` in
this case);
- `m`: the monad we are operating in, not specified here;
- `a`: the return type of the `Form`, in this case, this is obviously `User`.
> userForm :: Monad m => Form Text m User
We create forms by using the `Applicative` interface. A few form types are
provided in the `Text.Digestive.Form` module, such as `text`, `string`,
`bool`...
In the `digestive-functors` library, the developer is required to label each
field using the `.:` operator. This might look like a bit of a burden, but it
allows you to do some really useful stuff, like separating the `Form` from the
actual HTML layout.
> userForm = User
> <$> "name" .: text Nothing
> <*> "mail" .: check "Not a valid email address" checkEmail (text Nothing)
The `check` function enables you to validate the result of a form. For example,
we can validate the email address with a really naive `checkEmail` function.
> checkEmail :: Text -> Bool
> checkEmail = isJust . T.find (== '@')
More validation
---------------
For our example, we also want descriptions of Haskell libraries, and in order to
do that, we need package versions...
> type Version = [Int]
We want to let the user input a version number such as `0.1.0.0`. This means we
need to validate if the input `Text` is of this form, and then we need to parse
it to a `Version` type. Fortunately, we can do this in a single function:
`validate` allows conversion between values, which can optionally fail.
`readMaybe :: Read a => String -> Maybe a` is a utility function imported from
`Text.Digestive.Util`.
> validateVersion :: Text -> Result Text Version
> validateVersion = maybe (Error "Cannot parse version") Success .
> mapM (readMaybe . T.unpack) . T.split (== '.')
A quick test in GHCi:
ghci> validateVersion (T.pack "0.3.2.1")
Success [0,3,2,1]
ghci> validateVersion (T.pack "0.oops")
Error "Cannot parse version"
It works! This means we can now easily add a `Package` type and a `Form` for it:
> data Category = Web | Text | Math
> deriving (Bounded, Enum, Eq, Show)
> data Package = Package Text Version Category
> deriving (Show)
> packageForm :: Monad m => Form Text m Package
> packageForm = Package
> <$> "name" .: text Nothing
> <*> "version" .: validate validateVersion (text (Just "0.0.0.1"))
> <*> "category" .: choice categories Nothing
> where
> categories = [(x, T.pack (show x)) | x <- [minBound .. maxBound]]
Composing forms
---------------
A release has an author and a package. Let's use this to illustrate the
composability of the digestive-functors library: we can reuse the forms we have
written earlier on.
> data Release = Release User Package
> deriving (Show)
> releaseForm :: Monad m => Form Text m Release
> releaseForm = Release
> <$> "author" .: userForm
> <*> "package" .: packageForm
Views
-----
As mentioned before, one of the advantages of using digestive-functors is
separation of forms and their actual HTML layout. In order to do this, we have
another type, `View`.
We can get a `View` from a `Form` by supplying input. A `View` contains more
information than a `Form`, it has:
- the original form;
- the input given by the user;
- any errors that have occurred.
It is this view that we convert to HTML. For this tutorial, we use the
[blaze-html] library, and some helpers from the `digestive-functors-blaze`
library.
[blaze-html]: http://jaspervdj.be/blaze/
Let's write a view for the `User` form. As you can see, we here refer to the
different fields in the `userForm`. The `errorList` will generate a list of
errors for the `"mail"` field.
> userView :: View H.Html -> H.Html
> userView view = do
> label "name" view "Name: "
> inputText "name" view
> H.br
>
> errorList "mail" view
> label "mail" view "Email address: "
> inputText "mail" view
> H.br
Like forms, views are also composable: let's illustrate that by adding a view
for the `releaseForm`, in which we reuse `userView`. In order to do this, we
take only the parts relevant to the author from the view by using `subView`. We
can then pass the resulting view to our own `userView`.
We have no special view code for `Package`, so we can just add that to
`releaseView` as well. `childErrorList` will generate a list of errors for each
child of the specified form. In this case, this means a list of errors from
`"package.name"` and `"package.version"`. Note how we use `foo.bar` to refer to
nested forms.
> releaseView :: View H.Html -> H.Html
> releaseView view = do
> H.h2 "Author"
> userView $ subView "author" view
>
> H.h2 "Package"
> childErrorList "package" view
>
> label "package.name" view "Name: "
> inputText "package.name" view
> H.br
>
> label "package.version" view "Version: "
> inputText "package.version" view
> H.br
>
> label "package.category" view "Category: "
> inputSelect "package.category" view
> H.br
The attentive reader might have wondered what the type parameter for `View` is:
it is the `String`-like type used for e.g. error messages.
But wait! We have
releaseForm :: Monad m => Form Text m Release
releaseView :: View H.Html -> H.Html
... doesn't this mean that we need a `View Text` rather than a `View Html`? The
answer is yes -- but having `View Html` allows us to write these views more
easily with the `digestive-functors-blaze` library. Fortunately, we will be able
to fix this using the `Functor` instance of `View`.
fmap :: Monad m => (v -> w) -> View v -> View w
A backend
---------
To finish this tutorial, we need to be able to actually run this code. We need
an HTTP server for that, and we use [Happstack] for this tutorial. The
`digestive-functors-happstack` library gives about everything we need for this.
[Happstack]: http://happstack.com/
> site :: Happstack.ServerPart Happstack.Response
> site = do
> Happstack.decodeBody $ Happstack.defaultBodyPolicy "/tmp" 4096 4096 4096
> r <- runForm "test" releaseForm
> case r of
> (view, Nothing) -> do
> let view' = fmap H.toHtml view
> Happstack.ok $ Happstack.toResponse $
> template $
> form view' "/" $ do
> releaseView view'
> H.br
> inputSubmit "Submit"
> (_, Just release) -> Happstack.ok $ Happstack.toResponse $
> template $ do
> css
> H.h1 "Release received"
> H.p $ H.toHtml $ show release
>
> main :: IO ()
> main = Happstack.simpleHTTP Happstack.nullConf site
Utilities
---------
> template :: H.Html -> H.Html
> template body = H.docTypeHtml $ do
> H.head $ do
> H.title "digestive-functors tutorial"
> css
> H.body body
> css :: H.Html
> css = H.style ! A.type_ "text/css" $ do
> "label {width: 130px; float: left; clear: both}"
> "ul.digestive-functors-error-list {"
> " color: red;"
> " list-style-type: none;"
> " padding-left: 0px;"
> "}"
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