Basically I want to have two buttons in my view html template, and evaluate the Int param in my form for POST-request depending on which button has been clicked.
Like if button-number-1 was clicked I want my numParam to be 1
and if button-number-2 was clicked I want my numParam to be 2
Controller code:
case class Data(textParam: Option[String], numParam: Option[Int])
val form = Form(
mapping(
"textParam" -> optional(text),
"numParam" -> optional(number)
)(Data.apply)(Data.unapply)
)
View code:
#helper.form(helper.CSRF(routes.MyController.display)) {
#helper.inputText(form("paramA"))
<input type="submit" value="I want numParam to be 1">
<input type="submit" value="I want numParam to be 2">
}
Would appreciate any help!
I don't know whether this can be done with Play directly, so I propose to add some client-side JS into the mix.
What you could do:
Delete the <input type="submit" ...>, because it does not give you the possibility to modify form content before submission
add two <button>s instead
add a hidden input numValue
use javascript (in this case: jquery) to set the value of the hidden input when one of the buttons is clicked
submit the form using javascript
Something along these lines maybe (warning: untested):
#helper.form(helper.CSRF(routes.MyController.display), 'id -> "myForm") {
#helper.inputText(form("paramA"))
<button id="submit_numValue1">I want numParam to be 1</button>
<button id="submit_numValue2">I want numParam to be 2</button>
<input type="hidden" id="hiddenNumValue" name="numValue" value="0">
}
<script>
// add an `onclick` handler to first button
$('#submit_numValue1').click(function() {
// set hidden input to '1'
$('#hiddenNumValue').val("1");
// submit the form
$('#myForm').submit();
});
// add an `onclick` handler to the second button
$('#submit_numValue2').click(function() {
// set hidden input to '2'
$('#hiddenNumValue').val("2");
// submit the form
$('#myForm').submit();
});
</script>
As mentioned above, this requires that jquery is "imported" on the client-side as a javascript library.
No guarantee that this is the most idiomatic way to solve it in Play, but this answer seems to indicate that this approach is at least not uncommon.
I have a template based form in my Angular2 app for user registration. There, I am passing the form instance to the Submit function and I reset the from once the async call to the server is done.
Following are some important part from the form.
<form class="form-horizontal" #f="ngForm" novalidate (ngSubmit)="onSignUpFormSubmit(f.value, f.valid, newUserCreateForm, $event)" #newUserCreateForm="ngForm">
<div class="form-group">
<label class="control-label col-sm-3" for="first-name">First Name:</label>
<div class="col-sm-9">
<input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Your First Name" name="firstName" [(ngModel)]="_userCreateForm.firstName"
#firstName="ngModel" required>
<small [hidden]="firstName.valid || (firstName.pristine && !f.submitted)" class="text-danger">
First Name is required !
</small>
</div>
</div>
.......
.......
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-sm-offset-3 col-sm-12">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-default">Submit</button>
<button type="reset" class="btn btn-link">Reset</button>
</div>
</div>
</form>
In my component file, I have written following function.
onSignUpFormSubmit(model: UserCreateForm, isValid: boolean, form: FormGroup, event:Event) {
event.preventDefault();
if (isValid) {
this._userEmail = model.email;
this._authService.signUp(this._userCreateForm).subscribe(
res => {
console.log("In component res status = "+res.status);
if(res.status == 201){
//user creation sucess, Go home or Login
console.log("res status = 201");
this._status = 201;
}else if(res.status == 409){
//there is a user for given email. conflict, Try again with a different email or reset password if you cannot remember
this._status = 409;
}else{
//some thing has gone wrong, pls try again
this._serverError = true;
console.log("status code in server error = "+res.status);
}
form.reset();
alert("async call done");
}
);
}
}
If I submit an empty form, I get all validations working correctly. But, when I submit a valid form, Once the form submission and the async call to the server is done, I get all the fields of the form invalid again.
See the following screen captures.
I cannot understand why this is happening. If I comment out form.reset(), I do not get the issue. But form contains old data i submitted.
How can I fix this issue?
I solved this By adding these lines:
function Submit(){
....
....
// after submit to db
// reset the form
this.userForm.reset();
// reset the errors of all the controls
for (let name in this.userForm.controls) {
this.userForm.controls[name].setErrors(null);
}
}
You can just initialize a new model to the property the form is bound to and set submitted = false like:
public onSignUpFormSubmit() {
...
this.submitted = false;
this._userCreateForm = new UserCreateForm();
}
You need to change the button type submit to button as following.
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-sm-offset-3 col-sm-12">
<button type="button" class="btn btn-default">Submit</button>
<button type="reset" class="btn btn-link">Reset</button>
</div>
</div>
Reseting the form in simple javascript is the solution for now.
var form : HTMLFormElement =
<HTMLFormElement>document.getElementById('id');
form.reset();
this is how finally I had achieved this. I am using Angular5.
I have created a form group named ="firstFormGrop".
If you are not using form groups you can name the form as follow:
<form #myNgForm="ngForm">
In the html doc:
<form [formGroup]="firstFormGroup">
<button mat-button (click)='$event.preventDefault();this.clearForm();'>
<span class="font-medium">Create New</span>
</button>
</form>
In the .ts file:
this.model = new MyModel();
this.firstFormGroup.reset();
if you where using #myNgForm="ngForm then use instead:
myNgForm.reset();
// or this.myNgForm.reset()
This is a very common issue that after clicking the reset button we created the validators are not reset to its initial state, and it looks ugly.
To avoid that we have two options,the button is outside the form, or we prevent the submission when the button is tagged inside the form.
To prevent this default behaviour we need to call $event.preventDefault() before whatever method we are choosing to clear the form.
$event.preventDefault() is the key point.
The solution:
TEMPLATE:
<form
action=""
[formGroup]="representativeForm"
(submit)="register(myform)"
#myform="ngForm"
>
*ngIf="registrationForm.get('companyName').errors?.required && myform.submitted"
COMPONENT:
register(form) {
form.submitted = false;
}
Try changing the button type from "submit" to "button", e.g. :
<button type="button">Submit</button>
And move the submit method to click event of the button. Worked for me!
I have GET route which shows the contact form, and POST route when user submits the form, then in my controller method I do some validation tests on data being submitted.. how would I now send user back to form if data is not valid, with entered data being re-populated in form fields?
I know I can use isset(#POST.fieldname) in my template, but what's the right way of
sending entered data back to that view, and how to redirect user back to the
form? Is the f3->reroute method right way of doing that?
I think you can take as a rule to include input data inside your form views. This way, any form view will be easily reusable with any source of data.
For example:
Your form view:
<form action="" method="post">
<input type="text" name="email" value="{{ ##input.email }}"/>
<input type="text" name="message" value="{{ ##input.message }}"/>
<button type="submit">Submit form</button>
</form>
Your controller class:
class myController {
function get($f3) {
$this->renderForm();
}
function post($f3) {
$post=$f3->clean($_POST);
//validate form data here
if ($form_validated) {//valid form data
} else //invalid form data
$this->renderForm($post);
}
protected function renderForm($input=array()) {
$tpl=Template::instance();
//variant 1:
echo $tpl->render('form.html','text/html',array('input'=>$input))
// or variant 2:
Base::instance()->set('input',$input);
echo $tpl->render('form.html');
}
}
In some other contexts, you can feed a form view with data coming from a db mapper (for example when editing an entry from a back-office): $this->renderForm($mapper->cast())
I'm using this method: http://plnkr.co/edit/A6gvyoXbBd2kfToPmiiA?p=preview to only validate fields on blur. This works fine, but I would also like to validate them (and thus show the errors for those fields if any) when the user clicks the 'submit' button (not a real submit but a data-ng-click call to a function)
Is there some way to trigger validation on all the fields again when clicking that button?
What worked for me was using the $setSubmitted function, which first shows up in the angular docs in version 1.3.20.
In the click event where I wanted to trigger the validation, I did the following:
vm.triggerSubmit = function() {
vm.homeForm.$setSubmitted();
...
}
That was all it took for me. According to the docs it "Sets the form to its submitted state." It's mentioned here.
I know, it's a tad bit too late to answer, but all you need to do is, force all forms dirty. Take a look at the following snippet:
angular.forEach($scope.myForm.$error.required, function(field) {
field.$setDirty();
});
and then you can check if your form is valid using:
if($scope.myForm.$valid) {
//Do something
}
and finally, I guess, you would want to change your route if everything looks good:
$location.path('/somePath');
Edit: form won't register itself on the scope until submit event is trigger. Just use ng-submit directive to call a function, and wrap the above in that function, and it should work.
In case someone comes back to this later... None of the above worked for me. So I dug down into the guts of angular form validation and found the function they call to execute validators on a given field. This property is conveniently called $validate.
If you have a named form myForm, you can programmatically call myForm.my_field.$validate() to execute field validation. For example:
<div ng-form name="myForm">
<input required name="my_field" type="text" ng-blur="myForm.my_field.$validate()">
</div>
Note that calling $validate has implications for your model. From the angular docs for ngModelCtrl.$validate:
Runs each of the registered validators (first synchronous validators and then asynchronous validators). If the validity changes to invalid, the model will be set to undefined, unless ngModelOptions.allowInvalid is true. If the validity changes to valid, it will set the model to the last available valid $modelValue, i.e. either the last parsed value or the last value set from the scope.
So if you're planning on doing something with the invalid model value (like popping a message telling them so), then you need to make sure allowInvalid is set to true for your model.
You can use Angular-Validator to do what you want. It's stupid simple to use.
It will:
Only validate the fields on $dirty or on submit
Prevent the form from being submitted if it is invalid
Show custom error message after the field is $dirty or the form is submitted
See the demo
Example
<form angular-validator
angular-validator-submit="myFunction(myBeautifulForm)"
name="myBeautifulForm">
<!-- form fields here -->
<button type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>
If the field does not pass the validator then the user will not be able to submit the form.
Check out angular-validator use cases and examples for more information.
Disclaimer: I am the author of Angular-Validator
Well, the angular way would be to let it handle validation, - since it does at every model change - and only show the result to the user, when you want.
In this case you decide when to show the errors, you just have to set a flag:
http://plnkr.co/edit/0NNCpQKhbLTYMZaxMQ9l?p=preview
As far as I know there is a issue filed to angular to let us have more advanced form control. Since it is not solved i would use this instead of reinventing all the existing validation methods.
edit: But if you insist on your way, here is your modified fiddle with validation before submit. http://plnkr.co/edit/Xfr7X6JXPhY9lFL3hnOw?p=preview
The controller broadcast an event when the button is clicked, and the directive does the validation magic.
One approach is to force all attributes to be dirty. You can do that in each controller, but it gets very messy. It would be better to have a general solution.
The easiest way I could think of was to use a directive
it will handle the form submit attribute
it iterates through all form fields and marks pristine fields dirty
it checks if the form is valid before calling the submit function
Here is the directive
myModule.directive('submit', function() {
return {
restrict: 'A',
link: function(scope, formElement, attrs) {
var form;
form = scope[attrs.name];
return formElement.bind('submit', function() {
angular.forEach(form, function(field, name) {
if (typeof name === 'string' && !name.match('^[\$]')) {
if (field.$pristine) {
return field.$setViewValue(field.$value);
}
}
});
if (form.$valid) {
return scope.$apply(attrs.submit);
}
});
}
};
});
And update your form html, for example:
<form ng-submit='justDoIt()'>
becomes:
<form name='myForm' novalidate submit='justDoIt()'>
See a full example here: http://plunker.co/edit/QVbisEK2WEbORTAWL7Gu?p=preview
Here is my global function for showing the form error messages.
function show_validation_erros(form_error_object) {
angular.forEach(form_error_object, function (objArrayFields, errorName) {
angular.forEach(objArrayFields, function (objArrayField, key) {
objArrayField.$setDirty();
});
});
};
And in my any controllers,
if ($scope.form_add_sale.$invalid) {
$scope.global.show_validation_erros($scope.form_add_sale.$error);
}
Based on Thilak's answer I was able to come up with this solution...
Since my form fields only show validation messages if a field is invalid, and has been touched by the user I was able to use this code triggered by a button to show my invalid fields:
// Show/trigger any validation errors for this step
angular.forEach(vm.rfiForm.stepTwo.$error, function(error) {
angular.forEach(error, function(field) {
field.$setTouched();
});
});
// Prevent user from going to next step if current step is invalid
if (!vm.rfiForm.stepTwo.$valid) {
isValid = false;
}
<!-- form field -->
<div class="form-group" ng-class="{ 'has-error': rfi.rfiForm.stepTwo.Parent_Suffix__c.$touched && rfi.rfiForm.stepTwo.Parent_Suffix__c.$invalid }">
<!-- field label -->
<label class="control-label">Suffix</label>
<!-- end field label -->
<!-- field input -->
<select name="Parent_Suffix__c" class="form-control"
ng-options="item.value as item.label for item in rfi.contact.Parent_Suffixes"
ng-model="rfi.contact.Parent_Suffix__c" />
<!-- end field input -->
<!-- field help -->
<span class="help-block" ng-messages="rfi.rfiForm.stepTwo.Parent_Suffix__c.$error" ng-show="rfi.rfiForm.stepTwo.Parent_Suffix__c.$touched">
<span ng-message="required">this field is required</span>
</span>
<!-- end field help -->
</div>
<!-- end form field -->
Note: I know this is a hack, but it was useful for Angular 1.2 and earlier that didn't provide a simple mechanism.
The validation kicks in on the change event, so some things like changing the values programmatically won't trigger it. But triggering the change event will trigger the validation. For example, with jQuery:
$('#formField1, #formField2').trigger('change');
I like the this approach in handling validation on button click.
There is no need to invoke anything from controller,
it's all handled with a directive.
on github
You can try this:
// The controller
$scope.submitForm = function(form){
//Force the field validation
angular.forEach(form, function(obj){
if(angular.isObject(obj) && angular.isDefined(obj.$setDirty))
{
obj.$setDirty();
}
})
if (form.$valid){
$scope.myResource.$save(function(data){
//....
});
}
}
<!-- FORM -->
<form name="myForm" role="form" novalidate="novalidate">
<!-- FORM GROUP to field 1 -->
<div class="form-group" ng-class="{ 'has-error' : myForm.field1.$invalid && myForm.field1.$dirty }">
<label for="field1">My field 1</label>
<span class="nullable">
<select name="field1" ng-model="myresource.field1" ng-options="list.id as list.name for list in listofall"
class="form-control input-sm" required>
<option value="">Select One</option>
</select>
</span>
<div ng-if="myForm.field1.$dirty" ng-messages="myForm.field1.$error" ng-messages-include="mymessages"></div>
</div>
<!-- FORM GROUP to field 2 -->
<div class="form-group" ng-class="{ 'has-error' : myForm.field2.$invalid && myForm.field2.$dirty }">
<label class="control-label labelsmall" for="field2">field2</label>
<input name="field2" min="1" placeholder="" ng-model="myresource.field2" type="number"
class="form-control input-sm" required>
<div ng-if="myForm.field2.$dirty" ng-messages="myForm.field2.$error" ng-messages-include="mymessages"></div>
</div>
</form>
<!-- ... -->
<button type="submit" ng-click="submitForm(myForm)">Send</button>
I done something following to make it work.
<form name="form" name="plantRegistrationForm">
<div ng-class="{ 'has-error': (form.$submitted || form.headerName.$touched) && form.headerName.$invalid }">
<div class="col-md-3">
<div class="label-color">HEADER NAME
<span class="red"><strong>*</strong></span></div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-9">
<input type="text" name="headerName" id="headerName"
ng-model="header.headerName"
maxlength="100"
class="form-control" required>
<div ng-show="form.$submitted || form.headerName.$touched">
<span ng-show="form.headerName.$invalid"
class="label-color validation-message">Header Name is required</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<button ng-click="addHeader(form, header)"
type="button"
class="btn btn-default pull-right">Add Header
</button>
</form>
In your controller you can do;
addHeader(form, header){
let self = this;
form.$submitted = true;
...
}
You need some css as well;
.label-color {
color: $gray-color;
}
.has-error {
.label-color {
color: rgb(221, 25, 29);
}
.select2-choice.ui-select-match.select2-default {
border-color: #e84e40;
}
}
.validation-message {
font-size: 0.875em;
}
.max-width {
width: 100%;
min-width: 100%;
}
To validate all fields of my form when I want, I do a validation on each field of $$controls like this :
angular.forEach($scope.myform.$$controls, function (field) {
field.$validate();
});
I have a form on my page that needs to have multiple form actions associated with it. I'm using the following script in conjunction with the following code to achieve this:
<script>
function submitForm(action)
{
document.getElementById('summary').action = action;
document.getElementById('summary').submit();
}
</script>
<form action="go-gold.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="image" id="arrow" name="go_back" onclick="submitForm('go-gold.php')" value="go_back" src="images/arrow_back.png" class="submit_button" /><br>
<input type="image" id="arrow" name="submit_form" onclick="submitForm('registration.php')" value="submit_form" src="images/arrow.png" class="submit_button" />
</form>
The first button needs to "go back" within the same browser window (self), and the second button needs to submit the info to a new window (blank). How do I modify the code to achieve this? Putting "target" functions within the input type doesn't work, and putting the target in the Form tag makes both submit buttons submit to the same window.
Thanks!
Easy with jQuery, also you have to identical ids for two separate form elements. You should have these as distinct ids unless you want to use a class name. Php can submit forms to the same page using the $_SERVER superglobal by using $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] as the forms action name.
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
$(".submit_button").click(function() {
clickVal = $(".submit_button").val();
if(clickVal == 'go_back') {
//do go back stuff
}
if(clickVal == 'submit_form') {
// do actions for other page
}
});
});
</script>
<form action="go-gold.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="image" value="go_back" src="images/arrow_back.png" class="submit_button" /><br>
<input type="image" value="submit_form" src="images/arrow.png" class="submit_button" />
</form>