Marionette Forms

Trying to easy the form creation and maintainability of forms inside a Marionette view.

Copyright

Initially, this project was copied from Ampersand form related projects. It was adapted to work with Marionette. Below are the references this code is based on.

• https://github.com/AmpersandJS/ampersand-form-view
• https://github.com/AmpersandJS/ampersand-input-view
• https://github.com/AmpersandJS/ampersand-select-view
• https://github.com/AmpersandJS/ampersand-array-input-view
• https://github.com/AmpersandJS/ampersand-checkbox-view

Field requirements

That form can be given an array of field views.

These fields are also Marionette views, but just follow a few more conventions in order to be able to work with form view.

Those rules are as follows:

• It has to be an instance of Marionette.View, because the fields are rendered inside a Marionette Region.
• It has a getValue() function that returns the current value of the field.
• It has a setValue() function that sets the current value of the field.
• It should also store a value property if passed in as part of the config/options object when the view is created.
• It has a isValid() function that returns a boolean. The parent form checks this to know whether it can submit the form or not.
• It has a getName() function that returns the name of the field.
• It reports changes to its parent when it deems appropriate by calling this.parent.update(this) **note that it passes itsef to the parent. You would typically do this when the this.value has changed or the this.valid has changed.
• When rendered by a form-view, the form view creates a parent property that is a reference to the containing form view.
• It can optionally also define a beforeSubmit method. This gets called by the parent if it exists. This can be useful for stuff like a required text input that you don't want to show an error for if empty until the user tries to submit the form.