A custome form engine for django

1. AutoForms
A custom form engine for Django
@jeff_kit
http://jeffkit.info

2. AutoForms is ...
• A custom form engine for django
• Django Form ++
• Declare form at runtime
• Form serialization
• http://autoforms.sandbox.jeffkit.info

3. Who needs AutoForms
• Polling
• information collecting
• custom form in workflow
• a dynamic form in your Django app
• PAAS made in china

4. You may seen her before

5. How to ...

6. installation
• git clone git://github.com/jeffkit/autoforms
• cd autoforms
• python setup.py install

7. config ur Django project
• Append ‘autoforms’ to INSTALL_APPS in
settings.py
• Append “(r'^form/', include('autoforms.urls'))”
to urlpatterns in urls.py
• python manage.py syncdb
• And ....... Rock n’ Roll it !

8. Form Administration

9. Create a Form

11. Supported field types

12. Preview the form

13. Preview the form
How?

14. ADV Field setting
• default value,datasource,validator......
• Custom Field Widget
• Custom Error message

15. Advantage setting

16. Advantage
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17. Advantage
Supported Widget types
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18. Widget Parameters

19. Widget Parameters
json string

20. Widget Parameters
json string
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21. Widget Parameters
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22. Custom error message

23. Custom error message

24. Custom error message

25. Custom error message

26. Collecting form data
• fill a form @ form/fill/{form-id}/
• overview data @ form/overview/{form-id}/

27. Code Code Code
• OK here comes the high level API
• First of all:
• from autoforms.models import Form

28. Get a Form
• Empty Form
• form = Form.objects.get(pk=id).as_form()
• Form with data
• data = request.POST
• form = Form.objects.get(pk=id).as_form(data)
• ‘form’ could be a django.forms.Form object!

29. render a form
• form.as_p()
• form.as_table()
• form.as_ul()
• That’s the regular Django Form api!

30. Save form data
• data = request.POST
• form.persist(data)

31. Load stored form datas
• datas = form.search(page,size,fields,*args,**kw)

32. Play with datas
• for data in datas:
• print data.name,data.email,data.message
• ‘data’ is an instance of
autoforms.models.FormInstance

33. A fancy tag
• {% datalist page=1 pagesize=10
fields=name,email template=your-app/your-
template.html %}
• Diaplay your form data in a table.
• All parameters are optional !

34. Sth u can do with autoforms

35. Poll/Collecting service
• TODOs:
• A nice form style
• An Embedable (iframe ) form page
• Simple statis logic and charts

36. Form storage service
• TODOs:
• A better form data storage backend
• A Pice of javascript code

37. PAAS made in China?!
• a Form is a model
• develop on line with “form + script”
• ok,it’s just a joke :P

38. TODO
• i18N
• custom widget
• save the files
• a MongoDB form data storage backend
• custom validator

39. Questions?

40. Thank you!