New Feature: "url" pair for member/elements

[Corneloues]

The request to to add a "url" pair to member and element lists for the dForm plugin. The syntax would be of the format:

"url" : "http://...."

and would be applied as follows:

...
"elements" :
    [
        { "url" : "http://example.com/json/element-list.json" }
    ]
...

In th case of an accordion, the .json file would contain one or more of the following:

{
"caption" : "Customer Information",
"elements" : [ {...} ]
}

In the case of a the .json file would contain: { "value", "text", "value", "text", "value", "text", "value", "text" } This would allow for truly dynamic forms. Cheers, Roy

[daffl]

That's a good idea. Actually I think I will implement a URL subscriber that loads a JSON file and generates the form into any element.

[Corneloues]

By when ;-)

[daffl]

Well I actually just pushed some of the updates. It's pretty straightforward and easy to add, too:

$.dform.subscribe('url', function(options, type) {
    this.buildForm(options);
});

Should already do the trick to do something like this:

{
    "type" : "div",
    "url" : "myform.json"
}

[Corneloues]

So I'm trying to think how to translate that in to something I need.

I have several reusable sub forms which I will present as a collection of Accordions. So I want to be able to store them as JSON and include them alng the lines of:

{
"action" : "index.html",
"method" : "get",
"elements" : [
{
"type" : "accordion",
"caption" : "Job Closure (Complete)",
"entries" : [
{
"type", "accordion",
"url", "accordion1.json"
},
{
"type", "accordion",
"url", "accordion1.json"
},
{
"type", "accordion",
"url", "accordion1.json"
}
]
}
]
}

Where each jso file would contain:

{
"caption" : "Customer Information",
"elements" : [ {...} ]
}

And even the "elements" here could be a JSON file.

How would the syntax work?

Cheers,

Roy

[daffl]

Each entries object is nothing more but a div wrapper (which is why you don't need the type). Have you tried

"entries" :
[
    {
        "url", "accordion1.json"
    },
    {
        "url", "accordion1.json"
    }
]

? If the URL subscriber works properly this should just do it.