HTML::Widget::Element::Hidden - Hidden Element

HTML-Widget documentation

Contained in the HTML-Widget distribution.

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
METHODS
- value
- retain_default
- new
- containerize
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
LICENSE

Code Index:

package HTML::Widget::Element::Hidden
- new
- containerize
EOF

NAME

HTML::Widget::Element::Hidden - Hidden Element

SYNOPSIS

    my $e = $widget->element( 'Hidden', 'foo' );
    $e->value('bar');

DESCRIPTION

Hidden Element.

METHODS

value

Default value is 1.

retain_default

If true, overrides the default behaviour, so that after a field is missing from the form submission, the xml output will contain the default value, rather than be empty.

new

containerize

SEE ALSO

HTML::Widget::Element

AUTHOR

Sebastian Riedel, sri@oook.de

LICENSE

This library is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

HTML-Widget documentation

Contained in the HTML-Widget distribution.

package HTML::Widget::Element::Hidden;

use warnings;
use strict;
use base 'HTML::Widget::Element';
use NEXT;

__PACKAGE__->mk_accessors(qw/value retain_default/);

sub new {
    shift->NEXT::new(@_)->value(1);
}

sub containerize {
    my ( $self, $w, $value, $errors, $args ) = @_;

    $value = ref $value eq 'ARRAY' ? shift @$value : $value;

    $value = $self->value
        if ( not defined $value )
        and $self->retain_default || not $args->{submitted};

    my $i = $self->mk_input( $w, { type => 'hidden', value => $value } );

    return $self->container( { element => $i } );
}

1;