Form Generation Tool

This is a utility CLI to help generating forms in differents formats for BPMN processes and User Tasks in your Kogito projects.

How does it work?

When building a Kogito project, Kogito generates JSON schemas to represent the data models for both Processes and User Tasks.

This tool locates those JSON Schemas in the project and taking advantage of the Uniforms APIs, processes them and generate static forms as a resources in the project src/main/resoures/form folder.

Form Types

There are two types of form supported with differnt styling and output format:

• Patternfly: generates a React (.tsx) forms using Patternfly 4 components. Implementation can be found in @kie-tools/uniforms-patternfly-codegen

• Bootstrap 4: generates a HTML (.html) forms using Bootstrap 4 styling.

Each generated form consist in two files, the source code (.tsx or .html) and a companion .config file that defines the external resources (css / js) the form may need.

Build

In order to build the CLI you must run the following command in the root folder of the repository:

pnpm -F @kie-tools/form-generation-tool... build:prod

After the command has finished, go to packages/form-generation-tool/dist folder and you'll find the CLI binary (form-generation-cli-macos, form-generation-cli-linux or form-generation-cli-win.exe depending on your OS).

Running the CLI

If you built the form-generation-tool package as described above locally, then in the command line just execute the CLI binary:

./form-generation-cli-linux

For those, who do not want to build form-generation-tool package locally, they can install last published version and then run it:

npm i -g @kie-tools/form-generation-tool
form-generation-tool

For those, who want to try form-generation-tool without instalation they can start it as:

npx @kie-tools/form-generation-tool

All commands will start a wizard to help you generate the forms:

1. First set the path to your Kogito Project.

ℹ️ NOTE: Make sure your Kogito project has been compiled, otherwhise the CLI won't be able to find all the form schemas.

2. Select one of the availables the Form types (Patternfly or Bootstrap 4).

3. Confirm Selection to start the Form Generation process.

4. If the Form generation process is succesful, you'll get a confirmation message.

The generated forms will be stored in the src/main/resources/forms folder of the Kogito project.

Using the Custom Forms with Runtime Tools Quarkus Extension

If your project is a Quarkus based Kogito project, you can use and test them by using the Runtime Tools Quarkus Extension.

To do so, just add the following dependency in your project pom.xml:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.kie.kogito</groupId>
  <artifactId>runtime-tools-quarkus-extension</artifactId>
  <version>${version}</version>
</dependency>

And start the project in Dev mode with the command:

mvn clean quarkus:dev

For more information on how to setup the Runtime Tools Quarkus Extension in your project look at the oficial Kogito documentation.

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