Jifty::Action - The ability to Do Things in the framework


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NAME

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Jifty::Action - The ability to Do Things in the framework

SYNOPSIS

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    package MyApp::Action::Foo;
    use Jifty::Param::Schema;
    use Jifty::Action schema {

    param bar =>
        type is 'checkbox',
        label is 'Want Bar?',
        hints is 'Bar is this cool thing that you really want.',
        default is 0;

    };

    sub take_action {
        ...
    }

  1;

DESCRIPTION

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Jifty::Action is the superclass for all actions in Jifty. Action classes form the meat of the Jifty framework; they control how form elements interact with the underlying model.

See also Jifty::Action::Record for data-oriented actions, Jifty::Result for how to return values from actions.

See Jifty::Param::Schema for more details on the declarative syntax.

See Jifty::Manual::Actions for examples of using actions.

COMMON METHODS

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These common methods provide the basic guts for the action.

new

Do not call this directly; always go through Jifty->web->new_action!

This method constructs a new action. Subclasses who need do custom initialization should start with:

    my $class = shift;
    my $self = $class->SUPER::new(@_)

The arguments that this will be called with include:

Arguments

moniker

The moniker (moniker in Jifty::Manual::Glossary) of the action. Defaults to an autogenerated moniker.

order

An integer that determines the ordering of the action's execution. Lower numbers occur before higher numbers. Defaults to 0.

arguments

A hash reference of default values for the arguments (argument in Jifty::Manual::Glossary) of the action. Defaults to none.

sticky_on_failure

A boolean value that determines if the form fields are sticky (sticky in Jifty::Manual::Glossary) when the action fails. Defaults to true.

sticky_on_success

A boolean value that determines if the form fields are sticky (sticky in Jifty::Manual::Glossary) when the action succeeds. Defaults to false.

_generate_moniker

Construct a moniker for a new (or soon-to-be-constructed) action that did not have an explicit moniker specified. The algorithm is simple: We snapshot the call stack, prefix it with the action class, and then append it with an per-request autoincrement counter in case the same class/stack is encountered twice, which can happen if the programmer placed a new_action call inside a loop.

Monikers generated this way are guaranteed to work across requests.

arguments

Note: this API is now deprecated in favour of the declarative syntax offered by Jifty::Param::Schema.

This method, along with take_action, is the most commonly overridden method. It should return a hash which describes the arguments (argument in Jifty::Manual::Glossary) this action takes:

  {
    argument_name    => {label => "properties go in this hash"},
    another_argument => {mandatory => 1}
  }

Each argument listed in the hash will be turned into a Jifty::Web::Form::Field object. For each argument, the hash that describes it is used to set up the Jifty::Web::Form::Field object by calling the keys as methods with the values as arguments. That is, in the above example, Jifty will run code similar to the following:

  # For 'argument_name'
  $f = Jifty::Web::Form::Field->new;
  $f->name( "argument_name" );
  $f->label( "Properties go in this hash" );

If an action has parameters that must be passed to it to execute, these should have the constructor (constructor in Jifty::Manual::Glossary) property set. This is separate from the mandatory (mandatory in Jifty::Manual::Glossary) property, which deal with requiring that the user enter a value for that field.

run

This routine, unsurprisingly, actually runs the action.

If the result of the action is currently a success (validation did not fail), run calls take_action, and finally cleanup.

If you're writing your own actions, you probably want to override take_action instead.

validate

Checks authorization with check_authorization, calls /setup, canonicalizes and validates each argument that was submitted, but doesn't actually call take_action.

The outcome of all of this is stored on the result of the action.

check_authorization

Returns true if whoever invoked this action is authorized to perform this action.

By default, always returns true.

setup

setup is expected to return a true value, or run will skip all other actions.

By default, does nothing.

take_action

Do whatever the action is supposed to do. This and arguments are the most commonly overridden methods.

By default, does nothing.

The return value from this method is NOT returned. (Instead, you should be using the result object to store a result).

cleanup

Perform any action-specific cleanup. By default, does nothing.

Runs after take_action -- whether or not take_action returns success.

moniker

Returns the moniker (moniker in Jifty::Manual::Glossary) for this action.

argument_value ARGUMENT [VALUE]

Returns the value from the argument with the given name, for this action. If VALUE is provided, sets the value.

has_argument ARGUMENT

Returns true if the action has been provided with an value for the given argument, including a default_value, and false if none was ever passed in.

form_field ARGUMENT

Returns a Jifty::Web::Form::Field object for this argument. If there is no entry in the arguments hash that matches the given ARGUMENT, returns undef.

form_value ARGUMENT

Returns a Jifty::Web::Form::Field object that renders a display value instead of an editable widget for this argument. If there is no entry in the arguments hash that matches the given ARGUMENT, returns undef.

hidden ARGUMENT VALUE

A shortcut for specifying a form field ARGUMENT which should render as a hidden form field, with the default value VALUE.

order [INTEGER]

Gets or sets the order that the action will be run in. This should be an integer, with lower numbers being run first. Defaults to zero.

result [RESULT]

Returns the Jifty::Result method associated with this action. If an action with the same moniker existed in the last request, then this contains the results of that action.

register

Registers this action as being present, by outputting a snippet of HTML. This expects that an HTML form has already been opened. Note that this is not a guarantee that the action will be run, even if the form is submitted. See Jifty::Request for the definition of "active (active in Jifty::Manual::Glossary)" actions.

Normally, new_action in Jifty::Web takes care of calling this when it is needed.

render_errors

Render any the error in Jifty::Result of this action, if any, as HTML. Returns nothing.

button arguments => { KEY => VALUE }, PARAMHASH

Create and render a button. It functions nearly identically like link in Jifty::Web, except it takes arguments in addition to parameters, and defaults to submitting this Jifty::Action. Returns nothing.

Recommended reading: Jifty::Web::Form::Element, where most of the cool options to button and other things of its ilk are documented.

return PARAMHASH

Creates and renders a button, like button, which additionally defaults to calling the current continuation.

Takes an additional argument, to, which can specify a default path to return to if there is no current continuation.

NAMING METHODS

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These methods return the names of HTML form elements related to this action.

register_name

Returns the name of the "registration" query argument for this action in a web form.

form_field_name ARGUMENT

Turn one of this action's arguments (arguments in Jifty::Manual::Glossary) into a fully qualified name; takes the name of the field as an argument.

fallback_form_field_name ARGUMENT

Turn one of this action's arguments (arguments in Jifty::Manual::Glossary) into a fully qualified "fallback" name; takes the name of the field as an argument.

This is specifically to support checkboxes, which only show up in the query string if they are checked. Jifty creates a checkbox with the value of form_field_name as its name and a value of 1, and a hidden input with the value of fallback_form_field_name as its name and a value of 0; using this information, Jifty::Request can both determine if the checkbox was present at all in the form, as well as its true value.

error_div_id ARGUMENT

Turn one of this action's arguments (arguments in Jifty::Manual::Glossary) into the id for the div in which its errors live; takes name of the field as an argument.

warning_div_id ARGUMENT

Turn one of this action's arguments (arguments in Jifty::Manual::Glossary) into the id for the div in which its warnings live; takes name of the field as an argument.

canonicalization_note_div_id ARGUMENT

Turn one of this action's arguments (arguments in Jifty::Manual::Glossary) into the id for the div in which its canonicalization notes live; takes name of the field as an argument.

VALIDATION METHODS

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argument_names

Returns the list of argument names. This information is extracted from arguments.

_canonicalize_arguments

Canonicalizes each of the arguments (arguments in Jifty::Manual::Glossary) that this action knows about.

This is done by calling _canonicalize_argument for each field described by arguments.

_canonicalize_argument ARGUMENT

Canonicalizes the value of an argument (argument in Jifty::Manual::Glossary). If the argument has an attribute named canonicalizer, call the subroutine reference that attribute points points to.

If it doesn't have a canonicalizer attribute, but the action has a canonicalize_ARGUMENT function, also invoke that function.

If neither of those are true, by default canonicalize dates using _canonicalize_date

Note that it is possible that a canonicalizer will be called multiple times on the same field -- canonicalizers should be careful to do nothing to already-canonicalized data.

_canonicalize_date DATE

Parses and returns the date using Jifty::DateTime::new_from_string.

_validate_arguments

Validates the form fields. This is done by calling _validate_argument for each field described by arguments

_validate_argument ARGUMENT

Validate your form fields. If the field ARGUMENT is mandatory, checks for a value. If the field has an attribute named validator, call the subroutine reference validator points to.

If the action doesn't have an explicit validator attribute, but does have a validate_ARGUMENT function, invoke that function.

_extra_validator_args

Returns a list of extra arguments to pass to validators. By default, an empty hash reference, but subclasses can override it to pass, say, a better for.

_extra_canonicalizer_args

Returns a list of extra arguments to pass to canonicalizers. By default, an empty hash reference, but subclasses can override it to pass, say, a better for.

_extra_autocompleter_args

Returns a list of extra arguments to pass to autocompleters. By default, an empty hash reference, but subclasses can override it to pass, say, a better for.

_autocomplete_argument ARGUMENT

Get back a list of possible completions for ARGUMENT. The list should either be a list of scalar values or a list of hash references. Each hash reference must have a key named value. There can also additionally be a key named label which, if present, will be used as the user visible label. If label is not present then the contents of value will be used for the label.

If the field has an attribute named autocompleter, call the subroutine reference autocompleter points to.

If the field doesn't have an explicit autocompleter attribute, but does have a autocomplete_ARGUMENT function, invoke that function.

valid_values ARGUMENT

Given an parameter (parameter in Jifty::Manual::Glossary) name, returns the list of valid values for it, based on its valid_values field.

This method returns a hash reference with a display field for the string to display for the value, and a value field for the value to actually send to the server.

(Avoid using this -- this is not the appropriate place for this logic to be!)

available_values ARGUMENT

Just like valid_values, but if our action has a set of available recommended values, returns that instead. (We use this to differentiate between a list of acceptable values and a list of suggested values)

validation_error ARGUMENT => ERROR TEXT, [OPTIONS]

Used to report an error during validation. Inside a validator you should write:

  return $self->validation_error( $field => "error");

..where $field is the name of the argument which is at fault. Any extra OPTIONS are passed through to field_error in Jifty::Result.

validation_warning ARGUMENT => WARNING TEXT, [OPTIONS]

Used to report a warning during validation. Inside a validator you should write:

  return $self->validation_warning( $field => _("warning"));

..where $field is the name of the argument which is at fault. Any extra OPTIONS are passed through to field_warning in Jifty::Result.

validation_ok ARGUMENT, [OPTIONS]

Used to report that a field does validate. Inside a validator you should write:

  return $self->validation_ok($field);

Any extra OPTIONS are passed through to field_warning in Jifty::Result and field_error in Jifty::Result when unsetting them.

canonicalization_note ARGUMENT => NOTE

Used to send an informational message to the user from the canonicalizer. Inside a canonicalizer you can write:

  $self->canonicalization_note( $field => _("I changed $field for you"));

..where $field is the name of the argument which the canonicalizer is processing

deny REASON

When access to an action is denied by Jifty::API::is_allowed the request handler calls this with a message.

This should mark the action as failed and store the message but may also want to do other things (such as providing a nicer message or logging somewhere other than the jifty logs)

CUSTOMIZATION

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Canonicalization

If you wish to have the data in a field normalized into a particular format (such as changing a date into YYYY-MM-DD format, adding commas to numbers, capitalizing words, or whatever you need) you can do so using a canonicalizer.

This is just a method titled canonicalize_FIELD where FIELD is the name of the field be normalized. Here is an example:

  sub canonicalize_foo {
      my ($self, $value, $other, $metadata) = @_;

      # do something to canonicalize the value
      my $normal_form = lc($value) . '-' . $other->{other_field};
      $normal_form .= '-update' if $metadata->{for} eq 'update';

      return $normal_form;
  }

The first parameter to your canonicalizer will be the value to be canonicalized. The next will be a hash reference of all the parameters submitted with this canonicalization, so you can be smarter. Finally, the third parameter is a hash reference of other metadata, such as for, whose value will be create or update.

While doing this you might also want to call the canonicalization_note to inform the client of the modification:

  my $normal_form = lc($value);
  $self->canonicalization_note( 
      foo => _('Foo values are always in lowercase.'));

If the "foo" field has "ajax canoncalizes" set in the action schema, then this process will be performed automatically as the form is being filled without reloading the page.

Validation

If a value must follow a certain format, you can provide a validation method for fields to make sure that no value enters the database until it is in a valid form.

A validation method is one named validate_FIELD where FIELD is the name of the field being checked. Here is an example:

  sub validate_foo {
      my ($self, $value, $other, $metadata) = @_;

      # Check for uppercase letters
      if ($value =~ /\p{Lu}/) {
          return $self->validation_warning(
              foo => _("Foo cannot contain uppercase letters."));
      }

      # Check for -, *, +, and ?
      elsif ($value =~ /[\-\*\+\?]/) {
          return $self->validation_error(
              foo => _("Foo cannot contain -, *, +, or ?."));
      }

      return 1;
  }

Here the "foo" field should not contain uppercase letters and must not contain the characters '-', '*', '+', or '?'. You can use validation_error and validation_warning to return the results of your validation to the user or simply return 1 to indicate a valid value.

Note that the parameters are the same as in Canonicalization.

If you just have a list of valid values, you may want to use the valid_values schema parameter to perform this task instead.

Autocompletion

Autocompletion provides a way of suggesting choices to the client based upon partial data entry. This doesn't necessarily force the client to use one of the choices given but gives hints in an application specific way.

To create an autocompletion field, you implement a method named autocomplete_FIELD where FIELD is the field to autocomplete. This is generally done with fields rendered as 'Text'. Here is an example:

  sub autocomplete_foo {
      my ($self, $value) = @_;

      # Be careful to validate your input! You don't want a malicious user
      # hacking your system.
      my ($match_value) = $value =~ /^(\w+)$/;

      my $foos = MyApp::Model::FooCollection->new;
      $foos->limit(
          column   => 'name',
          operator => 'LIKE',
          value    => '%$value%',
      );

      return map { $_->name } @{ $foos->items_array_ref };
  }

In this example, the "foo" field is autocompleted from names matched from the MyApp::Model::Foo table. The match, in this case, matches any substring found in the database. I could have matched any item that starts with the string, ends with the string, matches other fields than the one returned, etc. It's up to you to decide.

Note also that I have untainted the value coming in to make sure a malicious user doesn't get anyway. You should always perform a check like this when data is coming in from an outside source.

If you need a more complicated solution, you can return the autocompletion values as a list of hash references containing the keys value and (optionally) label:

  return map { { value => $_->name, label => $_->label } }
            @{ $foos->items_array_ref };

In this case, the labels will be shown to the client, but the selected value would be returned to your application.

SEE ALSO

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Jifty, Jifty::API, Jifty::Action::Record, Jifty::Result, Jifty::Param::Schema, Jifty::Manual::Actions

LICENSE

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Jifty is Copyright 2005-2010 Best Practical Solutions, LLC. Jifty is distributed under the same terms as Perl itself.


Jifty documentation Contained in the Jifty distribution.
use warnings;
use strict;

package Jifty::Action;


use base qw/Jifty::Object Class::Accessor::Fast Class::Data::Inheritable/;

__PACKAGE__->mk_accessors(qw(moniker argument_values values_from_request order result sticky_on_success sticky_on_failure));
__PACKAGE__->mk_classdata(qw/PARAMS/);

sub new {
    my $class = shift;
    my $self = bless {}, $class;
    my %args = (
        order      => undef,
        arguments  => {},
        request_arguments => {},
        sticky_on_success => 0,
        sticky_on_failure => 1,
        current_user => undef,
        @_);

    # Setup current user according to parameter or pickup the actual
    if ($args{'current_user'}) {
        $self->current_user($args{current_user});
    } else {
        $self->_get_current_user();
    }

    # If given a moniker, validate/sanitize it
    if ( $args{'moniker'} ) {

        # XXX Should this be pickier about sanitized monikers?

        # Monikers must not contain semi-colons
        if ( $args{'moniker'} =~ /[\;]/ ) {

            # Replace the semis with underscores and warn
            $args{'moniker'} =~ s/[\;]/_/g;
            $self->log->warn(
                "Moniker @{[$args{'moniker'}]} contains invalid characters. It should not contain any ';' characters. "
                    . "It has been autocorrected, but you should correct your code"
            );
        }

        # Monikers must not start with a digit
        if ( $args{'moniker'} =~ /^\d/ ) {

            # Stick "fixup-" to the front and warn
            $args{'moniker'} = "fixup-" . $args{'moniker'};
            $self->log->warn(
                "Moniker @{[$args{'moniker'}]} contains invalid characters. It can not begin with a digit. "
                    . "It has been autocorrected, but you should correct your code"
            );

        }
    }

    # Setup the moniker and run order
    $self->moniker($args{'moniker'} || $self->_generate_moniker);
    $self->order($args{'order'});

    # Fetch any arguments from a passed in request
    my $action_in_request = Jifty->web->request->action( $self->moniker );
    if ( $action_in_request and $action_in_request->arguments ) {
        $args{'request_arguments'} = $action_in_request->arguments;
    }

    # Setup the argument values with the new_action arguments taking precedent
    $self->argument_values( { %{ $args{'request_arguments' } }, %{ $args{'arguments'} } } );

    # Track how an argument was set, again new_action args taking precedent
    $self->values_from_request({});
    $self->values_from_request->{$_} = 1 for keys %{ $args{'request_arguments' } };
    $self->values_from_request->{$_} = 0 for keys %{ $args{'arguments' } };
    
    # Place this actions result in the response result if already processed
    $self->result(Jifty->web->response->result($self->moniker) || Jifty::Result->new);
    $self->result->action_class(ref($self));

    # Remember stickiness
    $self->sticky_on_success($args{sticky_on_success});
    $self->sticky_on_failure($args{sticky_on_failure});

    return $self;
}

sub _generate_moniker {
    my $self = shift;

    # We use Digest::MD5 to generate the moniker
    use Digest::MD5 qw(md5_hex);

    # Use information from the call stack as the data for the digest 
    my $frame = 1;
    my @stack = (ref($self) || $self);
    while (my ($pkg, $filename, $line) = caller($frame++)) {
        push @stack, $pkg, $filename, $line;
    }

    # Generate the digest that forms the basis of the auto-moniker
    my $digest = md5_hex("@stack");

    # Increment the per-request moniker digest counter, for the case of looped action generation
    # We should always have a stash. but if we don't, fake something up
    # (some hiveminder tests create actions outside of a Jifty::Web)
    # Multiple things happening here that need to be noted:
    #  
    #  1. We have a per-request moniker digest counter, which handles the
    #     highly unlikely circumstance that the same digest were hit twice
    #     within the same request.
    #
    #  2. We should always have a stash, but sometimes we don't. (Specifically,
    #     some Hiveminder tests create actions outside of a Jifty::Web, which
    #     don't.) In that case, add more random data at the end and cross our
    #     fingers that we don't hit that one in a billion (or actually one in a
    #     significantly larger than a billion odds here).

    # Create a serial number that prevents collisions within a request
    my $serial = Jifty->handler->stash 
        ? ++(Jifty->handler->stash->{monikers}{$digest}) 
        : rand();

    # Build the actual moniker from digest + serial
    my $moniker = "auto-$digest-$serial";
    $self->log->debug("Generating moniker $moniker from stack for $self");

    return $moniker;
}

sub arguments {
    my  $self= shift;
    return($self->PARAMS || {});
}

sub run {
    my $self = shift;
    $self->log->debug("Running action ".ref($self) . " " .$self->moniker);

    # We've already had a validation failure. STOP!
    unless ($self->result->success) {
        $self->log->debug("Not taking action, as it doesn't validate");

        # dump field warnings and errors to debug log
        foreach my $what (qw/warnings errors/) {
            my $f = "field_" . $what;
            my @r =
                map {
                    $_ . ": " . $self->result->{$f}->{$_}
                } grep { $self->result->{$f}->{$_} }
                    keys %{ $self->result->{$f} };
            $self->log->debug("Action result $what:\n\t", join("\n\t", @r)) if (@r);
        }

        return;
    }

    # Made it past validation, continue...
    $self->log->debug("Taking action ".ref($self) . " " .$self->moniker);

    # Take the action (user-defined)
    my $ret = $self->take_action;
    $self->log->debug("Result: ".(defined $ret ? $ret : "(undef)"));
    
    # Perform post action clean-up (user-defined)
    $self->cleanup;
}

sub validate {
    my $self = shift;
    $self->check_authorization || return;
    $self->setup || return;
    $self->_canonicalize_arguments;
    $self->_validate_arguments;
}

sub check_authorization { 1; }

sub setup { 1; }

sub take_action { 1; }

sub cleanup { 1; }

sub argument_value {
    my $self = shift;
    my $arg = shift;

    # Not only get it, but set it
    if(@_) {
        $self->values_from_request->{$arg} = 0;
        $self->argument_values->{$arg} = shift;
    }

    # Get it
    return $self->argument_values->{$arg};
}

sub has_argument {
    my $self = shift;
    my $arg = shift;

    return exists $self->argument_values->{$arg};
}

sub form_field {
    my $self = shift;
    my $arg_name = shift;

    # Determine whether we want reads or write on this field
    my $mode = $self->arguments->{$arg_name}{'render_mode'};
    $mode = 'update' unless $mode && $mode eq 'read';

    # Return the widget
    $self->_form_widget( argument => $arg_name,
                         render_mode => $mode,
                         @_);
}


sub form_value {
    my $self = shift;
    my $arg_name = shift;

    # Return the widget, but in read mode
    $self->_form_widget( argument => $arg_name,
                         render_mode => 'read',
                         @_);

}

# Generalized helper for the two above
sub _form_widget {
    my $self = shift;
    my %args = (
        argument => undef,
        render_mode => 'update',
        @_,
    );
    my $cache_key = join '!!',
      map { $_ => defined $args{$_} ? $args{$_} : '' } keys %args;

    # Setup the field name
    my $field = $args{'argument'};

    # This particular field hasn't been added to the form yet
    if ( not exists $self->{_private_form_fields_hash}{$cache_key} ) {
        my $field_info = $self->arguments->{$field};
        # The field name is not known by this action
        unless ($field_info) {
            local $Log::Log4perl::caller_depth += 2;
            $self->log->warn("$field isn't a valid field for $self");
            return;
        }
        # It is in fact a form field for this action

        my $sticky = 0;
        # $sticky can be overriden per-parameter
        if ( defined $field_info->{sticky} ) {
            $sticky = $field_info->{sticky};
        }
        # Check stickiness if the values came from the request
        elsif (Jifty->web->response->result($self->moniker)) {
            $sticky = 1 if $self->sticky_on_failure and $self->result->failure;
            $sticky = 1 if $self->sticky_on_success and $self->result->success;
        }


        # form_fields overrides stickiness of what the user last entered.
        my $default_value;
        $default_value = $field_info->{'default_value'}
          if exists $field_info->{'default_value'};
        $default_value = $self->argument_value($field)
          if $self->has_argument($field) && !$self->values_from_request->{$field};

        my %field_args = (
            %$field_info,
            action        => $self,
            name          => $field,
            sticky        => $sticky,
            sticky_value  => $self->argument_value($field),
            default_value => $default_value,
            render_mode   => $args{'render_mode'},
            %args,
        );

        # Add the form field to the cache
        $self->{_private_form_fields_hash}{$cache_key}
            = Jifty::Web::Form::Field->new(%field_args);
    }

    return $self->{_private_form_fields_hash}{$cache_key};
}

sub hidden {
    my $self = shift;
    my ($arg, $value, @other) = @_;

    # Return the control as a hidden widget
    $self->form_field( $arg, render_as => 'hidden', default_value => $value, @other);
}

sub register {
    my $self = shift;

    # Add information about the action to the form
    Jifty->web->out( qq!<div class="hidden"><input type="hidden"! .
                       qq! name="@{[$self->register_name]}"! .
                       qq! id="@{[$self->register_name]}"! .
                       qq! value="@{[ref($self)]}"! .
                       qq! /></div>\n! );

    # Add all the default values as hidden fields to the form
    my %args = %{$self->arguments};
    while ( my ( $name, $info ) = each %args ) {
        next unless $info->{'constructor'};
        Jifty::Web::Form::Field->new(
            %$info,
            action        => $self,
            input_name    => $self->fallback_form_field_name($name),
            sticky        => 0,
            default_value => ($self->argument_value($name) || $info->{'default_value'}),
            render_as     => 'Hidden'
        )->render();
    }

    return '';
}

sub render_errors {
    my $self = shift;
    
    # Render the span that contians errors
    if (defined $self->result->error) {
        # XXX TODO FIXME escape?
        Jifty->web->out( '<div class="form_errors">'
                . '<span class="error">'
                . $self->result->error
                . '</span>'
                . '</div>' );
    }
    return '';
}

sub button {
    my $self = shift;
    my %args = ( arguments => {},
                 submit    => $self,
                 register  => 0,
                 @_);

    # The user has asked to register the action while we're at it
    if ($args{register}) {

        # If they ask us to register the action, do so
        Jifty->web->form->register_action( $self );
        Jifty->web->form->print_action_registration($self->moniker);
    } 
    
    # Add whatever additional arguments they've requested to the button
    $args{parameters}{$self->form_field_name($_)} = $args{arguments}{$_}
      for keys %{$args{arguments}};

    # Render us a button
    Jifty->web->link(%args);
}

sub return {
    my $self = shift;
    my %args = (@_);

    # Fetch the current continuation or build a new one
    my $continuation = Jifty->web->request->continuation;
    if (not $continuation and $args{to}) {
        $continuation = Jifty::Continuation->new(request => Jifty::Request->new(path => $args{to}));
    }
    delete $args{to};

    # Render a button that will call the continuation
    $self->button( call => $continuation, %args );
}

sub register_name {
    my $self = shift;
    return 'J:A-' . (defined $self->order ? $self->order . "-" : "") .$self->moniker;
}

# prefixes a fieldname with a given prefix and follows it with the moniker
sub _prefix_field {
    my $self = shift;
    my ($field_name, $prefix) = @_;
    return join("-", $prefix, $field_name, $self->moniker);
}

sub form_field_name {
    my $self = shift;
    return $self->_prefix_field(shift, "J:A:F");
}

sub fallback_form_field_name {
    my $self = shift;
    return $self->_prefix_field(shift, "J:A:F:F");
}

sub error_div_id {
  my $self = shift;
  my $field_name = shift;
  return 'errors-' . $self->form_field_name($field_name);
}

sub warning_div_id {
  my $self = shift;
  my $field_name = shift;
  return 'warnings-' . $self->form_field_name($field_name);
}

sub canonicalization_note_div_id {
  my $self = shift;
  my $field_name = shift;
  return 'canonicalization_note-' . $self->form_field_name($field_name);
}

sub argument_names {
    my $self      = shift;
    my %arguments = %{ $self->arguments };
    return (
        sort {
            (($arguments{$a}->{'sort_order'} ||0 ) <=> ($arguments{$b}->{'sort_order'} || 0))
                || (($arguments{$a}->{'name'} || '') cmp ($arguments{$b}->{'name'} ||'' ))
                || $a cmp $b
            } keys %arguments
    );
}

# XXX TODO: This is named with an underscore to prevent infinite
# looping with arguments named "argument" or "arguments".  We need a
# better solution.
sub _canonicalize_arguments {
    my $self   = shift;

    # For each, canonicalize them all
    $self->_canonicalize_argument($_)
      for $self->argument_names;
}


# XXX TODO: This is named with an underscore to prevent infinite
# looping with arguments named "argument" or "arguments".  We need a
# better solution.
sub _canonicalize_argument {
    my $self  = shift;
    my $field = shift;

    # Setup some variables
    my $field_info = $self->arguments->{$field};
    my $value = $self->argument_value($field);
    my $default_method = 'canonicalize_' . $field;

    # XXX TODO: Do we really want to skip undef values?
    return unless defined $value;

    # Do we have a valid canonicalizer for this field?
    if ( $field_info->{canonicalizer}
        and defined &{ $field_info->{canonicalizer} } ) {
        
        # Run it, sucka
        $value = $field_info->{canonicalizer}->( $self, $value, $self->argument_values, $self->_extra_canonicalizer_args );
    } 
    
    # How about a method named canonicalize_$field?
    elsif ( $self->can($default_method) ) {

        # Run that, foo'
        $value = $self->$default_method( $value, $self->argument_values, $self->_extra_canonicalizer_args );
    } 
    
    # Or is it a date?
    elsif (   defined( $field_info->{render_as} )
             && lc( $field_info->{render_as} ) eq 'date') {

        # Use the default date canonicalizer, Mr. T!
        $value = $self->_canonicalize_date( $value, $self->argument_values, $self->_extra_canonicalizer_args );
    }

    $self->argument_value($field => $value);
}

sub _canonicalize_date {
    my $self = shift;
    my $val = shift;
    return undef unless defined $val and $val =~ /\S/;
    return undef unless my $obj = Jifty::DateTime->new_from_string($val);
    return $obj->ymd;
}

# XXX TODO: This is named with an underscore to prevent infinite
# looping with arguments named "argument" or "arguments".  We need a
# better solution.
sub _validate_arguments {
    my $self   = shift;
    
    # Validate each argument
    $self->_validate_argument($_)
      for $self->argument_names;

    return $self->result->success;
}

# XXX TODO: This is named with an underscore to prevent infinite
# looping with arguments named "argument" or "arguments".  We need a
# better solution.
sub _validate_argument {
    my $self  = shift;
    my $field = shift;

    # Do nothing if we don't have a field name
    return unless $field;
    
    $self->log->debug(" validating argument $field");

    # Do nothing if we don't know what that field is
    my $field_info = $self->arguments->{$field};
    return unless $field_info;

    # Grab the current value
    my $value = $self->argument_value($field);
    
    # When it isn't even given, check if it's mandatory and whine about it
    if ( !defined $value || !length $value ) {
        if ( $field_info->{mandatory} and ($self->has_argument($field) or not defined $field_info->{default_value})) {
            return $self->validation_error( $field => _("You need to fill in the '%1' field", $field_info->{label} || $field) );
        }
    }

    # If we have a set of allowed values, let's check that out.
    if ( $value && $field_info->{valid_values} ) {
        $self->_validate_valid_values($field => $value);
        # ... but still check through a validator function even if it's in the list
        return if $self->result->field_error($field);
    }

    # the validator method name is validate_$field
    my $default_validator = 'validate_' . $field;

    # Finally, fall back to running a validator sub
    if ( $field_info->{validator}
        and defined &{ $field_info->{validator} } )
    {
        return $field_info->{validator}->( $self, $value, $self->argument_values, $self->_extra_validator_args );
    }

    # Check to see if it's the validate_$field method instead and use that
    elsif ( $self->can($default_validator) ) {
        return $self->$default_validator( $value, $self->argument_values, $self->_extra_validator_args );
    }

    # Check if we already have a failure for it, from some other field
    elsif ( $self->result->field_error($field) or $self->result->field_warning($field) ) {
        return 0;
    }

    # If none of the checks have failed so far, then it's ok
    else {
        return $self->validation_ok($field);
    }
}

sub _extra_validator_args {
    return {};
}

sub _extra_canonicalizer_args {
    return {};
}

sub _extra_autocompleter_args {
    return {};
}

# XXX TODO: This is named with an underscore to prevent infinite
# looping with arguments named "argument" or "arguments".  We need a
# better solution.
sub _autocomplete_argument {
    my $self  = shift;
    my $field = shift;
    my $field_info = $self->arguments->{$field};
    my $value = $self->argument_value($field);

    # the method is autocomplete_$field
    my $default_autocomplete = 'autocomplete_' . $field;

    # If it's defined on the field, use that autocompleter
    if ( $field_info->{autocompleter}  )
    {
        return $field_info->{autocompleter}->( $self, $value, $self->argument_values, $self->_extra_autocompleter_args );
    }

    # If it's a method on the class, use that autocompleter
    elsif ( $self->can($default_autocomplete) ) {
        return $self->$default_autocomplete( $value, $self->argument_values, $self->_extra_autocompleter_args );
    }

    # Otherwise, return zip-zero-notta
    return();
}

sub valid_values {
    my $self = shift;
    my $field = shift;

    $self->_values_for_field( $field => 'valid' );
}

sub _validate_valid_values {
    my $self  = shift;
    my $field = shift;
    my $value = shift;

    # If you're not on the list, you can't come to the party
    unless ( grep {defined $_->{'value'} and $_->{'value'} eq $value}
        @{ $self->valid_values($field) } ) {

        return $self->validation_error(
            $field => _("That doesn't look like a correct value") );
    }

    return 1;
}

sub available_values {
    my $self = shift;
    my $field = shift;

    $self->_values_for_field( $field => 'available' ) || $self->_values_for_field( $field => 'valid' );

}

# TODO XXX FIXME this is probably in the wrong place, logically
sub _values_for_field {
    my $self  = shift;
    my $field = shift;
    my $type = shift;

    # Check for $type_values (valid_values or available_values)
    my $vv_orig = $self->arguments->{$field}{$type .'_values'};
    local $@;

    # Try making that into a list or just return it
    my @values = eval { @$vv_orig } or return $vv_orig;

    # This is a final return list
    my @vv;

    # For each value in the *_values list
    for my $v (@values) {

        # If it's a hash, it may be a collection spec or a display/value
        if ( ref $v eq 'HASH' ) {

            # Check for a collection spec
            if ( $v->{'collection'} ) {

                # Load the display_from/value_from parameters
                my $disp = $v->{'display_from'};
                my $val  = $v->{'value_from'};

                if ($v->{'collection'}->count) {
                    unless ($v->{'collection'}->first->can($disp)) {
                        $self->log->error("Invalid 'display_from' of $disp on $field");
                    }
                    unless ($v->{'collection'}->first->can($val)) {
                        $self->log->error("Invalid 'value_from' of $val on $field");
                    }
                }

                # XXX TODO: wrap this in an eval?

                # Fetch all the record from the given collection and keep'em
                push @vv, map {
                    {
                        display => ( $_->$disp() || '' ),
                        value   => ( $_->$val()  || '' )
                    }
                } grep {$_->check_read_rights} @{ $v->{'collection'}->items_array_ref };

            }

            # Otherwise, push on the display/value hash
            else {

                # assume it's already display/value
                push @vv, $v;
            }
        }

        # Otherwise, treat plain string both display and value
        else {

            # just a string
            push @vv, { display => $v, value => $v };
        }
    }

    return \@vv;
}

sub validation_error {
    my $self = shift;
    my ($field, $error, %args) = @_;
    $self->log->warn("No such field '$field' -- did you forget to specify a field?")
        unless $self->arguments->{$field};

    $self->result->field_error($field => $error, %args);

    return 0;
}

sub validation_warning {
    my $self = shift;
    my ($field, $warning, %args) = @_;
    $self->log->warn("No such field '$field' -- did you forget to specify a field?")
        unless $self->arguments->{$field};

    $self->result->field_warning($field => $warning, %args); 

    return 0;
}

sub validation_ok {
    my $self = shift;
    my ($field, %args) = @_;
    $self->log->warn("No such field '$field' -- did you forget to specify a field?")
        unless $self->arguments->{$field};

    $self->result->field_error($field => undef, %args);
    $self->result->field_warning($field => undef, %args);

    return 1;
}

sub canonicalization_note {
    my $self = shift;
    my $field = shift;
    my $info = shift;
  
    $self->result->field_canonicalization_note($field => $info); 

    return;

}

sub deny {
    my $self = shift;
    my $message = shift||'';

    $self->result->failure(1);
    $self->result->message($message);

    return;
}

1;