This thread reminds me of my other idea - how about letting the form
to load the config from a string instead of a file? This would let
you create some more self-containing tests.
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Zbyszek
On 9/24/07, Carl Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 24/09/2007, Thomas L. Shinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Still playing with the vertically-aligned example and trying out various
> > features, including the validation constraints and error messages. But how
> > to test the input error checking without lots of code or embedding into
> > another program?
> >
> > It is possible to feed sample input values into FormFu using the YAML
> > config file. At the end of my FormFu .yml I added
> >
> > query:
> > contact_phone: testing
> > contact_email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > to set the form's 'input' values.
> >
> > I had tried to use the "process:" key as documented, but because the config
> > loading is still going on process() really can't, uh, process yet. So to
> > force 'input' processing to test constraints and all, I simply added a
> > process() call to the short demo program.
> > my $form = HTML::FormFu->new;
> > $form->load_config_file('uw1.yml');
> > $form->process;
> >
> > my $tt = Template->new;
> > $tt->process(
> > 'uw1.tt',
> > { form => $form },
> > 'uw1.html',
> > ) || die $tt->error;
> >
> > I can feed bad values in, or leave some required values missing, and
> > generally try out lots of combinations of errors, all without much coding.
> > Just being lazy...
>
> I would never have thought of setting 'query' in the config file -
> that's a good solution.
>
> I hope to get the tuits soon to update my css-tester app [1], so that
> you can also use it to build your own forms, adding elements and
> constraints, etc.
> Then you could just enter whatever input you want directly into the form.
>
> Up until now, I've generally used Catalyst to create a basic
> application to test things.
>
> [1] http://www.fireartist.com/html-formfu-cssapp
> (though this url will be going 404 soon, as I change my host - I'll
> send an update when I get it working again on my new host)
>
> Carl
>
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