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IMPORTANT

Angular Schema Form is undergoing a refactoring and the "bootstrap decorator", i.e. the part with all the HTML has been moved to github.com/Textalk/angular-schema-form-bootstrap.

The documentation below, especially form options is therefore somewhat bootstrap decorator specific. The docs is undergoing updating.

Documentation

  1. Basic Usage
  2. Handling Submit
  3. Updating Form
  4. Global Options
  5. Validation Messages
  6. Custom Validation
    1. Inject errors into form, aka backend validation
    2. Using ngModelController
      1. $validators
      2. $asyncVaidators
  7. Form defaults in schema
  8. Form types
  9. Default form types
  10. Form definitions
  11. Overriding field types and order
  12. Standard Options
    1. onChange
    2. Validation Messages
    3. Inline feedback icons
    4. ngModelOptions
    5. copyValueTo
  13. Specific options and types
    1. input group addons
    2. fieldset and section
    3. select and checkboxes
    4. actions
    5. button
    6. radios and radiobuttons
    7. help
    8. template
    9. tabs
    10. array
    11. tabarray
  14. Post process function
  15. Events
  16. Manual field insertion
  17. Deprecated fields
  18. Extending Schema Form

Basic Usage

First, expose your schema, form, and model to the $scope. Don't forget to load the schemaForm module.

angular.module('myModule', ['schemaForm'])
       .controller('FormController', function($scope) {
  $scope.schema = {
    type: "object",
    properties: {
      name: { type: "string", minLength: 2, title: "Name", description: "Name or alias" },
      title: {
        type: "string",
        enum: ['dr','jr','sir','mrs','mr','NaN','dj']
      }
    }
  };

  $scope.form = [
    "*",
    {
      type: "submit",
      title: "Save"
    }
  ];

  $scope.model = {};
}

Then load them into Schema Form using the sfSchema, sfForm, and sfModel directives.

<div ng-controller="FormController">
    <form sf-schema="schema" sf-form="form" sf-model="model"></form>
</div>

The sfSchema directive doesn't need to be on a form tag, in fact it can be quite useful to set it on a div or some such inside the form instead. Especially if you like to prefix or suffix the form with buttons or fields that are hard coded.

Example with custom submit buttons:

<div ng-controller="FormController">
  <form>
    <p>bla bla bla</p>
    <div sf-schema="schema" sf-form="form" sf-model="model"></div>
    <input type="submit" value="Submit">
    <button type="button" ng-click="goBack()">Cancel</button>
  </form>
</div>

Handling Submit

Schema Form does not care what you do with your data, to handle form submit the recomended way is to use the ng-submit directive. It's also recomended to use a name attribute on your form so you can access the FormController and check if the form is valid or not.

You can force a validation by broadcasting the event schemaFormValidate, ex $scope.$broadcast('schemaFormValidate'), this will immediately validate the entire form and show any errors.

Example submit:

function FormController($scope) {
  $scope.schema = {
    type: "object",
    properties: {
      name: { type: "string", minLength: 2, title: "Name", description: "Name or alias" },
      title: {
        type: "string",
        enum: ['dr','jr','sir','mrs','mr','NaN','dj']
      }
    }
  };

  $scope.form = [
    "*",
    {
      type: "submit",
      title: "Save"
    }
  ];

  $scope.model = {};

  $scope.onSubmit = function(form) {
    // First we broadcast an event so all fields validate themselves
    $scope.$broadcast('schemaFormValidate');

    // Then we check if the form is valid
    if (form.$valid) {
      // ... do whatever you need to do with your data.
    }
  }
}

And the HTML would be something like this:

<div ng-controller="FormController">
    <form name="myForm"
          sf-schema="schema"
          sf-form="form"
          sf-model="model"
          ng-submit="onSubmit(myForm)"></form>
</div>

Updating Form

Schema Form watches sf-form and sf-schema and will redraw the form if one or both changes, but only if they change completly, i.e. not the same object and/or form instance. For performance reasons we have opted to not watch schema and form deeply. So if you have updated a part of the schema or the form definition you can trigger a redraw by issuing the event schemaFormRedraw.

ex:

function Ctrl($scope) {
  $scope.removeLastField = function() {
    $scope.form.pop()
    $scope.$broadcast('schemaFormRedraw')
  }
}

Global Options

Schema Form also have two options you can set globally via the sf-options attribute which should be placed along side sf-schema.

sf-options takes an object with the following possible attributes.

Attribute Type
supressPropertyTitles boolean by default schema form uses the property name in the schema as a title if none is specified, set this to true to disable that behavior
formDefaults object an object that will be used as a default for all form definitions
validationMessage object or function Object or a function that will be used as default validation message for all fields. See Validation Messages for details.
setSchemaDefaults boolean Should schema defaults be set on model.
destroyStrategy string the default strategy to use for cleaning the model when a form element is removed. see destroyStrategy below
pristine Object {errors ,success} Sets if errors and success states should be visible when form field are $pristine. Default is {errors: true, success: true}
validateOnRender boolean Should form be validated on initial render? Default false

formDefaults is mostly useful for setting global ngModelOptions i.e. changing the entire form to validate on blur.

Ex.

<div ng-controller="FormController">
    <form sf-schema="schema"
          sf-form="form"
          sf-model="model"
          sf-options="{ formDefaults: { ngModelOptions: { updateOn: 'blur' } }}"></form>
</div>

Validation Messages

We use tv4 to validate the form and all of the validation messages match up tv4 error codes.

There are several ways to change the default validation messages.

  1. Change the defaults in sfErrorMessages service via its provider. This will set the validation messages for all instances of sf-schema
  2. Use the global option validationMessage
  3. Use the form field option validationMessage

If a specific validation error code can't be found in the form field option, schema form looks at the global option, if none is there it looks at it's own defaults and if all fails it will instead use the the message under the error code 'default'

Ex of form field option.

var form = [
  "address.zip",
  {
    key: "address.street",
    validationMessage: {
      302: "This field is like, uh, required?"
    }
  }
];

And of global options

<div ng-controller="FormController">
    <form sf-schema="schema"
          sf-form="form"
          sf-model="model"
          sf-options="{ validationMessage: { 302: 'Do not forget me!' }}"></form>
</div>

Message Interpolation

Having a good validation message is hard, sometimes you need to reference the actual value, title, or constraint that you hit. Schema Form supports interpolation of error messages to make this a little bit easier.

The context variables available to you are:

Name Value
error The error code
title Title of the field
value The model value
viewValue The view value (probably the one you want)
form form definition object for this field
schema schema for this field

Ex.

var form = [
  "address.zip",
  {
    key: "address.street",
    validationMessage: {
      101: 'Seriously? Value {{value}} totally less than {{schema.minimum}}, which is NOT OK.',
    }
  }
];

Taking over: functions as validationMessages

If you really need to control the validaton messages and interpolation is not enough (like say your using Jed for gettext translations) you can supply a function instead of a particular message or the entire validationMessage object.

The should take one argument, and that is an object with the exact same properties as the context used for interpolation, see table above.

Ex.

var form = [
  "address.zip",
  {
    key: "address.street",
    validationMessage: {
      302: function(ctx) { return Jed.gettext('This value is required.'); },
    }
  }
];

Or:

var form = [
  "address.zip",
  {
    key: "address.street",
    validationMessage: function(ctx) {
      return lookupMessage[ctx.error];
    }
  }
];

Custom Validation

Sometimes the validation you want is tricky to express in a JSON Schema or Schema Form does not support it (yet), like anyOf and oneOf.

Other times you really need to ask the backend, maybe to check that the a username is not already taken or some other constraint that only the backend can know about.

Inject errors into form aka backend validation

To support validation outside of the form, most commonly on the backend, schema form lets you injecting arbitrary validationMessages to any field and setting it's validity.

This is done via an event that starts with schemaForm.error. and ends with the key to the field. It also takes two arguments, the first being the error code, the second being either a validation message or a boolean that sets validity, specifying a validation message automatically sets the field to invalid.

So lets do an example, say you have a form with a text field name:

Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "name": { "type": "string" }
  }
}

Form

[
  "name"
]

To inject an error message and set that forms validity via ngModelController.$setValidity broadcast an event with the name schemaForm.error.name with name/code for the error and an optional validation message.

scope.$broadcast('schemaForm.error.name','usernameAlreadyTaken','The username is already taken');

This will invalidate the field and therefore the form and show the error message where it normally pops up, under the field for instance.

There is a catch though, schema form can't know when this field is valid so you have to tell it by sending an event again, this time switch out the validation message for validity of the field, i.e. true.

scope.$broadcast('schemaForm.error.name','usernameAlreadyTaken',true);

You can also pre-populate the validation messages if you don't want to send them in the event.

Form

[
  {
    "key": "name",
    "validationMessages": {
      "userNameAlreadyTaken"
    }
  }
]
scope.$broadcast('schemaForm.error.name','usernameAlreadyTaken',false);

You can even trigger standard tv4 error messages, just prefix the error code with tv4-

// Shows the "Required" error message
scope.$broadcast('schemaForm.error.name','tv4-302',false);

Using ngModelController

Another way to validate your fields is to use Angulars built in support for validator functions and async validators via the ngModelController

Schema Form can expose the ngModelController on a field for a function supplied with the form definition. Or you can use a shorthand by adding $validators and $asyncValidators objects as well as $viewChangeListener, $parsers and $formatters arrays to your form object and they will be picked up.

Note that $validators and $asyncValidators are Angular 1.3+ only.

See Angular docs for details and there is also an example you can look at here examples/custom-validators.html

$validators

Custom validator functions are added to the $validators object and their attribute name is the error code, so to specify a error message you also need to use.

[
  {
    key: 'name',
    validationMessage: {
      'noBob': 'Bob is not OK! You here me?'
    },
    $validators: {
      noBob: function(value) {
        if (angular.isString(value) && value.indexOf('Bob') !== -1) {
          return false;
        }
        return true
      }
    }
  }
]

$asyncValidators

Async validators are basically the same as their synchronous counterparts, but instead you return a promise that resolves or rejects.

[
  {
    key: 'name',
    validationMessage: {
      'noBob': 'Bob is not OK! You here me?'
    },
    $asyncValidators: {
      noBob: function(value) {
        var deferred = $q.defer();
        $timeout(function(){
          if (angular.isString(value) && value.indexOf('bob') !== -1) {
            deferred.reject();
          } else {
            deferred.resolve();
          }
        }, 500);
        return deferred.promise;
      }
    }
  }
]

Form defaults in schema

Its recommended to split presentation and validation into a form definition and a json schema. But if you for some reason can't do this, but do have the power to change the schema, you can supply form default values within the schema using the custom attribute x-schema-form. x-schema-form should be a form object and acts as form definition defaults for that field.

Example schema.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "comment": {
      "type": "string",
      "title": "Comment",
      "x-schema-form": {
        "type": "textarea",
        "placeholder": "Don't hold back"
      }
    }
  }
}

Form types

Schema Form currently supports the following form field types out of the box:

Form Type Becomes
fieldset a fieldset with legend
section just a div
actions horizontal button list, can only submit and buttons as items
text input with type text
textarea a textarea
number input type number
password input type password
checkbox a checkbox
checkboxes list of checkboxes
select a select (single value)
submit a submit button
button a button
radios radio buttons
radios-inline radio buttons in one line
radiobuttons radio buttons with bootstrap buttons
help insert arbitrary html
template insert an angular template
tab tabs with content
array a list you can add, remove and reorder
tabarray a tabbed version of array

More field types can be added, for instance a "datepicker" type can be added by including the datepicker addon, see the front page for an updated list.

Default form types

Schema Form defaults to certain types of form fields depending on the schema for a property.

Schema Form type
"type": "string" text
"type": "number" number
"type": "integer" number
"type": "boolean" checkbox
"type": "object" fieldset
"type": "string" and a "enum" select
"type": "array" and a "enum" in array type checkboxes
"type": "array" array

Form definitions

If you don't supply a form definition, it will default to rendering the after the defaults taken from the schema.

A form definition is a list where the items can be

  • A star, "*"
  • A string with the dot notated name/path to a property, "name"
  • An object with that defines the options for a form field., { key: "name" }

The star, "*" means "use the default for the entire schema" and is useful when you want the defaults plus an additional button.

ex.

[
  "*",
  { type: 'submit', title: 'Save' }
]

The string notation, "name", is just a shortcut for the object notation { key: "name" } where key denotes what part of the schema we're creating a form field for.

Overriding field types and order

The order of the fields is technically undefined since the order of attributes on an javascript object (which the schema ends up being) is undefined. In practice it kind of works though. If you need to override the order of the forms, or just want to be sure, specify a form definition.

ex.

var schema = {
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "surname":     { "type": "string" },
    "firstname":   { "type": "string" },
  }
}

[
  "firstname",
  "surname"
]

You can also override fields to force the type and supply other options: ex.

var schema = {
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "surname":     { "type": "string" },
    "firstname":   { "type": "string" },
  }
}

[
  "firstname",
  {
    key: "surname",
    type: "select",
    titleMap: [
      { value: "Andersson", name: "Andersson" },
      { value: "Johansson", name: "Johansson" },
      { value: "other", name: "Something else..."}
    ]
  }
]

Standard Options

General options most field types can handle:

{
  key: "address.street",      // The dot notatin to the attribute on the model
  type: "text",               // Type of field
  title: "Street",            // Title of field, taken from schema if available
  notitle: false,             // Set to true to hide title
  description: "Street name", // A description, taken from schema if available, can be HTML
  validationMessage: "Oh noes, please write a proper address",  // A custom validation error message
  onChange: "valueChanged(form.key,modelValue)", // onChange event handler, expression or function
  feedback: false,             // Inline feedback icons
  disableSuccessState: false,  // Set true to NOT apply 'has-success' class to a field that was validated successfully
  disableErrorState: false,    // Set true to NOT apply 'has-error' class to a field that failed validation
  placeholder: "Input...",     // placeholder on inputs and textarea
  ngModelOptions: { ... },     // Passed along to ng-model-options
  readonly: true,              // Same effect as readOnly in schema. Put on a fieldset or array
                               // and their items will inherit it.
  htmlClass: "street foobar",  // CSS Class(es) to be added to the container div
  fieldHtmlClass: "street"     // CSS Class(es) to be added to field input (or similar)
  labelHtmlClass: "street"     // CSS Class(es) to be added to the label of the field (or similar)
  copyValueTo: ["address.street"],     // Copy values to these schema keys.
  condition: "person.age < 18" // Show or hide field depending on an angular expression
  destroyStrategy: "remove"    // One of "null", "empty" , "remove", or 'retain'. Changes model on $destroy event. default is "remove".
}

onChange

The onChange option can be used with most fields and its value should be either an angular expression, as a string, or a function. If its an expression it will be evaluated in the parent scope of the sf-schema directive with the special locals modelValue and form. If its a function that will be called with modelValue and form as first and second arguments.

ex.

$scope.form = [
  {
    key: "name",
    onChange: "updated(modelValue,form)"
  },
  {
    key: "password",
    onChange: function(modelValue,form) {
      console.log("Password is",modelValue);
    }
  }
];

Validation Messages

The validation message can be a string, an object with error codes as key and messages as values or a custom message function, see Validation Messages for the details.

Inline feedback icons

input and textarea based fields get inline status icons by default. A check when everything is valid and a cross when there are validation errors.

This can be turned off or configured to other icons. To turn off just set feedback to false. If set to a string that string is evaluated by a ngClass in the decorators scope. If not set att all the default value is { 'glyphicon': true, 'glyphicon-ok': hasSuccess(), 'glyphicon-remove': hasError() }

ex. displaying an asterisk on required fields

  $sope.form = [
    {
      key: "name",
      feedback: "{ 'glyphicon': true, 'glyphicon-asterisk': form.required && !hasSuccess() && !hasError() ,'glyphicon-ok': hasSuccess(), 'glyphicon-remove': hasError() }"
    }

Useful things in the decorators scope are

Name Description
hasSuccess() true if field is valid and not pristine
hasError() true if field is invalid and not pristine
ngModel The controller of the ngModel directive, ex. ngModel.$valid
form The form definition for this field

ngModelOptions

Angular 1.3 introduces a new directive, ngModelOptions, which let's you set a couple of options that change how the directive ng-model works. Schema Form uses ng-model to bind against fields and therefore changing theses options might be usefule for you.

One thing you can do is to change the update behavior of ng-model, this is how you get form fields that validate on blur instead of directly on change.

Ex.

{
  key: "email",
  ngModelOptions: { updateOn: 'blur' }
}

See Global Options for an example how you set entire form to validate on blur.

copyValueTo

This option has a very specific use case. Imagine you have the same option in several places, but you want them to be controlled from just one field. You specify what keys the value should be copied to, and the viewValue will be copied to these keys on the model. Note: changing the model directly will not copy the value, it's intended for copying user input. The recieving fields can be shown, but the intent for them is to be hidden.

Ex.

{
  key: "email.main",
  copyValueTo: ["email.confirm", "other.email"]
}

condition

The condition option lets you hide or show a field depending on an angular expression. Beneath the surface it uses ng-if so the hidden field is not part of the form.

condition should be a string with an angular expression. If that expression evaluates as thruthy the field will be rendered into the DOM otherwise not. The expression is evaluated in the parent scope of the sf-schema directive (the same as onClick on buttons) but with access to the current model, current model value and current array index under the name model, modelValue and arrayIndex. This is useful for hiding/showing parts of a form depending on another form control.

ex. A checkbox that shows an input field for a code when checked

function FormCtrl($scope) {
  $scope.person = {}

  $scope.schema = {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "name": {
        "type": "string",
        "title": "Name"
      },
      "eligible": {
        "type": "boolean",
        "title": "Eligible for awesome things"
      },
      "code": {
        "type":"string"
        "title": "The Code"
      }
    }
  }

  $scope.form = [
    "name",
    "eligible",
    {
      "key": "code",
      "condition": "person.eligible", //or "model.eligible"
    }
  ]
}

Note that angulars two-way binding automatically will update the conditional field, no need for event handlers and such. The condition need not reference a model value it could be anything on scope.

The same example, but inside an array:

function FormCtrl($scope) {
  $scope.persons = []

  $scope.schema = {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "persons": {
        "type": "array",
        "items": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "name": {
              "type": "string",
              "title": "Name"
            },
            "eligible": {
              "type": "boolean",
              "title": "Eligible for awesome things"
            },
            "code": {
              "type":"string"
              "title": "The Code"
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }

  $scope.form = [
    {
      "key": "persons",
      "items": [
        "persons[].name",
        "persons[].eligible",
        {
          key: "persons[].code",
          condition: "persons[arrayIndex].eligible", //or "model[arrayIndex].eligable"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Note that arrays inside arrays won't work with conditions.

destroyStrategy

By default, when a field is removed from the DOM and the $destroy event is broadcast, this happens if you use the condition option, the schema-validate directive will update the model to set the field value to undefined. This can be overridden by setting the destroyStrategy on a field, or as a global option, to one of the strings "null", "empty" , "remove", or "retain".

"null" means that model values will be set to null instead of being removed.

"empty" means empty strings, "", for model values that has the string type, {} for model values with object type and [] for array type. All other types will be treated as "remove".

"remove" deletes the property. This is the default.

"retain" keeps the value of the property event though the field is no longer in the form or being vaidated before submit.

If you'd like to set the destroyStrategy for an entire form, add it to the globalOptions

Specific options and types

input group addons

input and textarea types can also have bootstrap input groups.

You can add them with the option fieldAddonLeft and fieldAddonRight which both takes a snippet of html.

[
  {
    "key": "email"
    "fieldAddonLeft": "@"
  }
]

fieldset and section

fieldset and section doesn't need a key. You can create generic groups with them. They do need a list of items to have as children.

{
  type: "fieldset",
  items: [
    "name",
    { key: "surname", notitle: true }
  ]
}

select and checkboxes

select and checkboxes can take an attribute, titleMap, which defines a name and a value. The value is bound to the model while the name is used for display. In the case of checkboxes the names of the titleMap can be HTML.

A titleMap can be specified as either an object (same as in JSON Form), where the propery is the value and the value of that property is the name, or as a list of name-value objects. The latter is used internally and is the recomended format to use. Note that when defining a titleMap as an object the value is restricted to strings since property names of objects always is a string.

As a list:

{
  type: "select",
  titleMap: [
    { value: "yes", name: "Yes I do" },
    { value: "no", name: "Hell no" }
  ]
}

As an object:

{
  type: "select",
  titleMap: {
    "yes": "Yes I do",
    "no": "Hell no"
  }
}

The select can also take an optional group property in its titleMap that adds <optgroup> element to the select.

{
  type: "select",
  titleMap: [
    { value: "yes", name: "Yes I do", group: "Boolean" },
    { value: "no", name: "Hell no" , group: "Boolean" },
    { value: "no", name: "File Not Found", group: "Other" },
  ]
}

actions

actions behaves the same as fieldset, but can only handle buttons and submits as children.

{
  type: "actions",
  items: [
    { type: 'submit', title: 'Ok' }
    { type: 'button', title: 'Cancel', onClick: "cancel()" }
  ]
}

The submit and other buttons have btn-default as default. We can change this with style attribute:

{
  type: "actions",
  items: [
    { type: 'submit', style: 'btn-success', title: 'Ok' }
    { type: 'button', style: 'btn-info', title: 'Cancel', onClick: "cancel()" }
  ]
}

button and submit

button and submit can have a onClick attribute that either a function or a string with an angular expression, as with ng-click. The expression is evaluated in the parent scope of the sf-schema directive.

[
  { type: 'submit', title: 'Ok', onClick: function(){ ...  } }
  { type: 'button', title: 'Cancel', onClick: "cancel()" }
[

The submit and other buttons have btn-default as default. We can change this with style attribute:

[
  { type: 'submit', style: 'btn-warning', title: 'Ok', onClick: function(){ ...  } }
  { type: 'button', style: 'btn-danger', title: 'Cancel', onClick: "cancel()" }
[

A button can also have optional icon classes:

[
  {
    type: 'button',
    title: 'Cancel',
    icon: 'glyphicon glyphicon-icon-exclamation-sign'
    onClick: "cancel()"
  }
[

radios and radiobuttons

Both type radios and radiobuttons work the same way. They take a titleMap and renders ordinary radio buttons or bootstrap 3 buttons inline. It's a cosmetic choice.

The titleMap is either a list or an object, see select and checkboxes for details. The "name" part in the titleMap can be HTML.

Ex.

function FormCtrl($scope) {
  $scope.schema = {
    type: "object",
    properties: {
      choice: {
        type: "string",
        enum: ["one","two"]
      }
    }
  };

  $scope.form = [
    {
      key: "choice",
      type: "radiobuttons",
      titleMap: [
        { value: "one", name: "One" },
        { value: "two", name: "More..." }
      ]
    }
  ];
}

The actual schema property it binds doesn't need to be a string with an enum. Here is an example creating a yes no radio buttons that binds to a boolean.

Ex.

function FormCtrl($scope) {
  $scope.schema = {
    type: "object",
    properties: {
      confirm: {
        type: "boolean",
        default: false
      }
    }
  };

  $scope.form = [
    {
      key: "confirm",
      type: "radios",
      titleMap: [
        { value: false, name: "No I don't understand these cryptic terms" },
        { value: true, , name: "Yes this makes perfect sense to me" }
      ]
    }
  ];
}

With radiobuttons, both selected and unselected buttons have btn-default as default. We can change this with style attribute:

function FormCtrl($scope) {
  $scope.schema = {
    type: "object",
    properties: {
      choice: {
        type: "string",
        enum: ["one","two"]
      }
    }
  };

  $scope.form = [
    {
      key: "choice",
      type: "radiobuttons",
      style: {
		selected: "btn-success",
		unselected: "btn-default"
	  },
	  titleMap: [
     { value: "one", name: "One" },
     { value, "two", name: "More..." }
   ]
  ];
}

help

Help fields is not really a field, but instead let's you insert arbitrary HTML into a form, suitable for help texts with links etc.

The get a help field you need to specify the type help and have a html snippet as a string in the option helpvalue

Ex.

function FormCtrl($scope) {
  $scope.schema = {
    type: "object",
    properties: {
      name: {
        title: "Name",
        type: "string"
      }
    }
  };

  $scope.form = [
    {
      type: "help",
      helpvalue: "<h1>Yo Ninja!</h1>"
    },
    "name"
  ];
}

template

template fields are like help fields but instead of arbitrary html you can insert or refer to an angular template to be inserted where the field should go. There is one catch though and that is that the scope is that of the decorator directive and its inside the isolated scope of the sf-schema directive, so anything you like to access in the template should be put on the form, which is available in template. It's basically a simple one shot version of add-ons, so see the see the docs on Extending Schema Form for details on what is on scope and what's up with $$value$$

The template type should either have a template or a templateUrl option.

Ex.

function FormCtrl($scope) {

  $scope.form = [
    {
      type: "template",
      template: '<h1 ng-click="form.foo()">Yo {{form.name}}!</h1>',
      name: 'Ninja',
      foo: function() { console.log('oh noes!'); }
    },
    {
      type: "template",
      templateUrl: "templates/foo.html",
      myFavouriteVariable: 'OMG!!'
    }
  ];
}

tabs

The tabs form type lets you split your form into tabs. It is similar to fieldset in that it just changes the presentation of the form. tabs takes a option, also called tabs, that is a list of tab objects. Each tab object consist of a title and a items list of form objects.

Ex.

function FormCtrl($scope) {
  $scope.schema = {
    type: "object",
    properties: {
      name: {
        title: "Name",
        type: "string"
      },
      nick: {
        title: "Nick",
        type: "string"
      }
      alias: {
        title: "Alias",
        type: "string"
      }
      tag: {
        title: "Tag",
        type: "string"
      }
    }
  };

  $scope.form = [
    "name",
    {
      type: "tabs",
      tabs: [
        {
          title: "Tab 1",
          items: [
            "nick",
            "alias"
          ]
        },
        {
          title: "Tab 2",
          items: [
            "tag"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ];
}

array

The array form type is the default for the schema type array. The schema for an array has the property "items" which in the JSON Schema specification can be either another schema (i.e. and object), or a list of schemas. Only a schema is supported by Schema Form, and not the list of schemas.

The form definition has the option items that should be a list of form objects.

The rendered list of subforms each have a "Remove" button and at the bottom there is an "Add" button. The default "Add" button has class btn-default and text Add. Both could be changed using attribute add, see example below.

If you like to have drag and drop reordering of arrays you also need ui-sortable and its dependencies jQueryUI, see ui-sortable documentation for details of what parts of jQueryUI that is needed. You can also pass options to the ui-sortable directive by including a sortOptions key on the form object. Check the ui-sortable documentation for a complete list of available options. You can safely ignore these if you don't need the reordering.

In the form definition you can refer to properties of an array item by the empty bracket notation. In the key simply end the name of the array with []

By default the array will start with one undefined value so that the user is presented with one form element. To suppress this behaviour, set the attribute startEmpty to true.

Given the schema:

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "subforms": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "name": { "type": "string" },
          "nick": { "type": "string" },
          "emails": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "string"
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Then subforms[].name refers to the property name of any subform item, subforms[].emails[] refers to the subform of emails. See example below for usage.

Single list of inputs example:

function FormCtrl($scope) {
  $scope.schema = {
    type: "object",
    properties: {
      names: {
        type: "array",
        items: {
          title: "Name",
          type: "string"
        }
      }
    }
  };

  $scope.form = ['*'];
}

Example with sub form, note that you can get rid of the form field the object wrapping the subform fields gives you per default by using the items option in the form definition, also example of startEmpty.

function FormCtrl($scope) {
  $scope.schema = {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "subforms": {
        "type": "array",
        "items": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "name": { "type": "string" },
            "nick": { "type": "string" },
            "emails": {
              "type": "array",
              "items": {
                "type": "string"
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  };


  $scope.form = [
    {
      key: "subforms",
      add: "Add person",
      style: {
		add: "btn-success"
	  },
      items: [
        "subforms[].nick",
        "subforms[].name",
        "subforms[].emails",
      ],
      startEmpty: true
    }
  ];
}

To suppress add and remove buttons set add to null and remove to null.

function FormCtrl($scope) {
  $scope.form = [
    {
      key: "subforms",
      add: null,
      remove: null,
      style: {
		add: "btn-success"
	  },
      items: [
        "subforms[].nick",
        "subforms[].name",
        "subforms[].emails",
      ],
    }
  ];
}

tabarray

The tabarray form type behaves the same way and has the same options as array but instead of rendering a list it renders a tab per item in list.

By default the tabs are on the left side (follows the default in JSON Form), but with the option tabType you can change that to eiter "top" or "right" as well.

Every tab page has a "Remove" button. The default "Remove" button has class btn-default and text Remove. Both could be changed using attribute remove, see example below.

In this case we have an "Add" link, not an "Add" button. Therefore, the attribute add only changes the text of the link. See example below.

Bootstrap 3 doesn't have side tabs so to get proper styling you need to add the dependency bootstrap-vertical-tabs. It is not needed for tabs on top.

The title option is a bit special in tabarray, it defines the title of the tab and it is interpolated so you can use expression it. Its interpolated with two extra variables in context: value and $index, where value is the value in the array (i.e. that tab) and $index the index.

You can include multiple expressions or mix expressions and text as needed: Ex:

    {
      "form": [
        {
          "type": "tabarray",
          "title": "My {{ value.name }} is:",
        }
      ]
    }

Deprecation Warning

Before version 0.8.0 the entire title was evaluated as an expression and not interpolated. If you weren't using expressions in your form titles then no changes are needed.

However, if your tabarray titles contain implicit Angular expressions like this:

    {
      "form": [
        {
          "type": "tabarray",
          "title": "value.name || 'Tab '+$index",
        }
      ]
    }

Then you should change this to explicit expressions by wrapping them with the Angular expression delimiter "{{ }}":

    {
      "form": [
        {
          "type": "tabarray",
          "title": "{{ value.name || 'Tab '+$index }}",
        }
      ]
    }

Example with tabs on the top:

function FormCtrl($scope) {
  $scope.schema = {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "subforms": {
        "type": "array",
        "items": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "name": { "type": "string" },
            "nick": { "type": "string" },
            "emails": {
              "type": "array",
              "items": {
                "type": "string"
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  };


  $scope.form = [
    {
      type: "tabarray",
      tabType: "top",
      title: "{{value.nick || ('Tab '+$index)}}"
      key: "subforms",
      remove: "Delete",
      style: {
		remove: "btn-danger"
	  },
	  add: "Add person",
      items: [
        "subforms[].nick",
        "subforms[].name",
        "subforms[].emails",
      ]
    }
  ];
}

Post process function

If you like to use ["*"] as a form, or aren't in control of the form definitions but really need to change or add something you can register a post process function with the schemaForm service provider. The post process function gets one argument, the final form merged with the defaults from the schema just before it's rendered, and should return a form.

Ex. Reverse all forms

angular.module('myModule', ['schemaForm']).config(function(schemaFormProvider){

  schemaFormProvider.postProcess(function(form){
    form.reverse();
    return form;
  })

});

Events

Events are emitted or broadcast at various points in the process of rendering or validating the form. Below is a list of these events and how they are propagated.

Event When Type Arguments
sf-render-finished After form is rendered emit The sf-schema directives's element

Schema form also listens to events.

Event What Docs
schemaFormValidate Validates all fields Handling Submit
schemaFormRedraw Redraws form Updating Form

Manual field insertion

There is a limited feature for controlling manually where a generated field should go so you can ,as an example, wrap it in custom html. Consider the feature experimental.

It has a number of drawbacks though.

  1. You can only insert fields that are in the root level of your form definition, i.e. not inside fieldset, arrays etc.
  2. Generated fields are always last in the form so if you don't supply slots for all of your top level fields the rest goes below.
  3. To match "keys" of forms we match against the internal array format, hence the key "name" becomes "['name']" and "foo.bar" becomes "['foo']['bar']"

Define "slots" for the generated field by adding an element with the attribute sf-insert-field

ex.

$scope.form = [
  "name",
  "email",
  "comment"
]
<form sf-model="model"
      sf-form="form"
      sf-schema="schema">
  <em>before</em>
  <div sf-insert-field="['email']"></div>
  <em>after</em>

  <!-- the rest of the form, i.e. name and comment will be generated here -->
</form>

Deprecated fields

conditional

The conditional type is now deprecated since every form type now supports the form option condition.

A conditional is exactly the same as a section, i.e. a <div> with other form elements in it, hence they need an items property. They also need a condition which is a string with an angular expression. If that expression evaluates as thruthy the conditional will be rendered into the DOM otherwise not. The expression is evaluated in the parent scope of the sf-schema directive (the same as onClick on buttons) but with access to the current model and current array index under the name model and arrayIndex. This is useful for hiding/showing parts of a form depending on another form control.

ex. A checkbox that shows an input field for a code when checked

function FormCtrl($scope) {
  $scope.person = {}

  $scope.schema = {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "name": {
        "type": "string",
        "title": "Name"
      },
      "eligible": {
        "type": "boolean",
        "title": "Eligible for awesome things"
      },
      "code": {
        "type":"string"
        "title": "The Code"
      }
    }
  }

  $scope.form = [
    "name",
    "eligible",
    {
        type: "conditional",
        condition: "model.person.eligible",
        items: [
          "code"
        ]
    }
  ]
}

Note that angulars two-way binding automatically will update the conditional block, no need for event handlers and such. The condition need not reference a model value it could be anything in scope.

The same example, but inside an array:

function FormCtrl($scope) {
  $scope.persons = []

  $scope.schema = {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "persons": {
        "type": "array",
        "items": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "name": {
              "type": "string",
              "title": "Name"
            },
            "eligible": {
              "type": "boolean",
              "title": "Eligible for awesome things"
            },
            "code": {
              "type":"string"
              "title": "The Code"
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }

  $scope.form = [
    {
      "key": "persons",
      "items": [
        "persons[].name",
        "persons[].eligible",
        {
          type: "conditional",
          condition: "persons[arrayIndex].eligible", //or "model.eligable"
          items: [
            "persons[].code"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Note that arrays inside arrays won't work with conditional.