NAME

Chloro - Form Processing So Easy It Will Knock You Out

VERSION

version 0.06

SYNOPSIS

    package MyApp::Form::Login;

    use Moose;
    use Chloro;

    field username => (
        isa      => 'Str',
        required => 1,
    );

    field password => (
        isa      => 'Str',
        required => 1,
    );

    ...

    sub login {
        ...

        my $form = MyApp::Form::Login->new();

        my $resultset = $form->process( params => $submitted_params );

        if ( $resultset->is_valid() ) {
            my $login = $resultset->results();

            # Do something with $login->{username} & $login->{password}
        }
        else {
            # Errors that are not specific to just one field
            my @form_errors = $resultset->form_errors();

            # Errors keyed by specific field names
            my %field_errors = $resultset->field_errors();

            # Do something with these errors
        }
    }

DESCRIPTION

This software is still very alpha, and the API may change without warning in future versions.

For a walkthrough of all this module's features, see Chloro::Manual.

Chloro is yet another in a long line of form processing libraries. It differs from other libraries in that it is entirely focused on defining forms in programmer terms. Field types are Moose type constraints, not HTML widgets ("Str" not "Select").

Chloro is focused on taking a browser's submission, doing basic validation, and returning a data structure that you can use for further processing.

Out of the box, it does not talk to your database, nor does it know anything about rendering HTML. However, it is designed so that these features could be provided by extensions.

OVERVIEW

Chloro starts with forms. A form is a class which uses Chloro (and Moose).

    package MyApp::Form::User;

    use Moose;
    use Chloro;

    field username => (
        isa      => 'Str',
        required => 1,
    );

In order to validate data against a form, you instantiate a form object and call $form->process():

    my $form = MyApp::Form::User->new();
    my $resultset = $form->process( params => $params );

The $params are a hash reference where the keys are field names and the values are field values. Under the hood, you can define a variety of parameter munging and validation methods, or just use the defaults.

The process() method returns a Chloro::ResultSet object. This object can tell you whether the submitted parameters were valid. If they weren't, you can dig into the errors associated with specific fields. You can also define validations against the form as a whole, and the resultset will have those errors too.

    if ( $resultset->is_valid() ) {
        ...
    }
    else {
        my $result = $resultset->result_for('username');

        print $_->message() for $result->errors();
    }

If the submission was valid, you can get the results as a hash reference:

    my $hash = $resultset->results();

That's the basic workflow using Chloro.

MANUAL

If you're new to Chloro, you should start by reading Chloro::Manual.

AUTHOR

Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is Copyright (c) 2011 by Dave Rolsky.

This is free software, licensed under:

  The Artistic License 2.0 (GPL Compatible)