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react-easy-formrender

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Introduction?

High degree of freedom and Lightweight dynamic form Engine, high-end solutions often require only simple design(which is done based on react-easy-formcore development).

• Component Registration: Registered form components need to match the value/onChange (or other field) pass-through in order to work properly.
• Component description: properties supports object or array type rendering, Supports adding nested object fields via the properties property.
• Component rendering: Form component handles form values, RenderFormChildren component handles form rendering, one Form component can support multiple RenderFormChildren components rendering internally.
• Component linkage: All form properties can support string expressions to describe linkage conditions (except properties).

version log

• v8.x
  • Update the underlying components to react-easy-formcore at least version 5.x.
  • Rendering data source properties rendering method changed, divided into nested nodes and control nodes, where nested nodes no longer carry form field components, only control nodes carry form field components by default
  • store changed to formrender,
• v7.x
  • 7.0.0 Remove controls property, keep components property to register all global components.
• v6.x
  • 6.2.17 fieldComponent change to component，The component property can be set to null. and update FormRenderStore methods. addItemByIndex, addAfterByPath, addBeforeByPath removed;
  • 6.2.7 When the default component RenderForm reports an error in the form tag in the nested case, you can set tagName to be replaced by another tag.
  • 6.2.5 Enhancing and adjusting the usage of string expressions, and adding a new description of how to use string expressions in this document.
  • 6.2 adapt the underlying react-easy-formcore library to path systems above 4.x, fix the useFormValues bug.
  • The component is split into Form and RenderFormChildren components, the Form component handles the form values, the RenderFormChildren renders the form based on the information provided, a Form component can wrap multiple RenderFormChildren components, if multiple RenderFormChildren components have the same properties as each other, the later will override the previous
  • schema properties are flattened, so you need to use properties to render the form instead, and onSchemaChange needs to be replaced with onPropertiesChange
• v5.x: This update completes the decoupling of the form display component from the form value related logic. basic version.
  • The underlying library react-easy-formcore is updated, you need to remove the old package and install the new version
  • readOnlyItem is deprecated, only readOnlyRender is kept
• v4.x: v4.x and previous versions mostly adjust some method naming and parameter passing changes.
  • Deprecate fixed container properties col and customInner, add custom containers inside and outside;
  • widgets to controls , widget and widgetProps to type and props;
  • readOnlyWidget to readOnlyItem;
• v3.1.x:
  • Adjust the layout property of form fields, add inline, labelWidth properties
  • Adjust onPropertiesChange of default export component to onSchemaChange
  • Adjust customChild to customInner
• v3.0.x:
  • String expressions representing form values changed from $form to $formvalues
  • Add $store to the string expression to represent an instance of FormRenderStore, which can get the form related methods and data
  • If you need to introduce a built-in component (add/remove buttons for lists), you need to import 'react-easy-formrender/lib/css/main.css'.
• v2.x:
  • remove the dependencies property and instead inject the form values formvalues to the widget component automatically.
  • change api of RenderFormChildren component
• v1.x:
  • Change the method of the form component
  • Change component and props in schema to widget and widgetProps
  • change render in schema to readOnlyWidget and readOnlyRender
  • Version matching react-easy-formcore version 1.1.x or higher

install

npm install react-easy-formrender --save
# or
yarn add react-easy-formrender

example

1.First register the basic components(Take the antd@4.20.2 UI library as an example)

// register
import RenderFormDefault, { RenderFormChildren as RenderFormChilds, RenderFormProps } from 'react-easy-formrender';
import React from 'react';
import { Input, InputNumber, Checkbox, DatePicker, Mentions, Radio, Rate, Select, TreeSelect, Slider, Switch, TimePicker } from 'antd';
import 'react-easy-formrender/lib/css/main.css'
export * from 'react-easy-formrender';

export const BaseComponents = {
  "Input": Input,
  "Input.TextArea": Input.TextArea,
  "Input.Password": Input.Password,
  "Input.Search": Input.Search,
  "InputNumber": InputNumber,
  "Mentions": Mentions,
  "Mentions.Option": Mentions.Option,
  "Checkbox": Checkbox,
  'Checkbox.Group': Checkbox.Group,
  "Radio": Radio,
  "Radio.Group": Radio.Group,
  "Radio.Button": Radio.Button,
  "DatePicker": DatePicker,
  "DatePicker.RangePicker": DatePicker.RangePicker,
  "Rate": Rate,
  "Select": Select,
  "Select.Option": Select.Option,
  "TreeSelect": TreeSelect,
  "Slider": Slider,
  "Switch": Switch,
  "TimePicker": TimePicker,
  "TimePicker.RangePicker": TimePicker.RangePicker
}

export type CustomRenderFormProps = RenderFormProps<any>;

// RenderFormChildren
export function RenderFormChildren(props: CustomRenderFormProps) {
  const { components, expressionImports, ...rest } = props;
  return (
    <RenderFormChilds
      options={{ props: { autoComplete: 'off' } }}
      components={{ ...BaseComponents, ...components }}
      // expressionImports={{ ...expressionImports, moment }}
      {...rest}
    />
  );
}

// RenderForm
export default function FormRender(props: CustomRenderFormProps) {
  const { components, expressionImports, ...rest } = props;
  return (
    <RenderFormDefault
      options={{ props: { autoComplete: 'off' } }}
      components={{ ...BaseComponents, ...components }}
      // expressionImports={{ ...expressionImports, moment }}
      {...rest}
    />
  );
}

2.import registered components

import { Button } from 'antd';
import React, { useState } from 'react';
import RenderForm, { useFormStore, useFormRenderStore } from './form-render';
export default function Demo5(props) {

  const watch = {
    'name2': (newValue, oldValue) => {
      console.log(newValue, oldValue)
    },
    'name3[0]': (newValue, oldValue) => {
      console.log(newValue, oldValue)
    },
    'name4': (newValue, oldValue) => {
      console.log(newValue, oldValue)
    }
  }

  const properties = {
      name1: {
        label: "readonly",
        readOnly: true,
        readOnlyRender: "readonly component",
        initialValue: 1111,
        hidden: '{{formvalues && formvalues.name6 == true}}',
        type: 'Input',
        props: {}
      },
      name2: {
        label: "input",
        rules: [{ required: true, message: 'input empty' }],
        initialValue: 1,
        hidden: '{{formvalues && formvalues.name6 == true}}',
        type: 'Input',
        props: {}
      },
      name3: {
        // type: '',
        // props: {},
        properties: [{
          label: "list[0]",
          rules: [{ required: true, message: 'list[0] empty' }],
          initialValue: { label: 'option1', value: '1', key: '1' },
          type: 'Select',
          props: {
            labelInValue: true,
            style: { width: '100%' },
            children: [
              { type: 'Select.Option', props: { key: 1, value: '1', children: 'option1' } },
              { type: 'Select.Option', props: { key: 2, value: '2', children: 'option2' } }
            ]
          }
        }, {
          label: "list[1]",
          rules: [{ required: true, message: 'list[1] empty' }],
          type: 'Select',
          props: {
            labelInValue: true,
            style: { width: '100%' },
            children: [
              { type: 'Select.Option', props: { key: 1, value: '1', children: 'option1' } },
              { type: 'Select.Option', props: { key: 2, value: '2', children: 'option2' } }
            ]
          }
        }]
      },
      name4: {
        // type: '',
        // props: {},
        properties: {
          first: {
            label: "first",
            rules: [{ required: true, message: 'first empty' }],
            type: 'Select',
            props: {
              style: { width: '100%' },
              children: [{ type: 'Select.Option', props: { key: 1, value: '1', children: 'option1' } }]
            }
          },
          second: {
            label: "second",
            rules: [{ required: true, message: 'second empty' }],
            type: 'Select',
            props: {
              style: { width: '100%' },
              children: [{ type: 'Select.Option', props: { key: 1, value: '1', children: 'option1' } }]
            }
          }
        }
      },
      name5: {
        label: 'name5',
        initialValue: { span: 12 },
        valueSetter: "{{(value)=> (value && value['span'])}}",
        valueGetter: "{{(value) => ({span: value})}}",
        type: 'Select',
        props: {
          style: { width: '100%' },
          children: [
            { type: 'Select.Option', props: { key: 1, value: 12, children: 'option1' } },
            { type: 'Select.Option', props: { key: 2, value: 6, children: 'option2' } },
            { type: 'Select.Option', props: { key: 3, value: 4, children: 'option3' } }
          ]
        }
      },
      name6: {
        label: 'checkbox',
        valueProp: 'checked',
        initialValue: true,
        rules: [{ required: true, message: 'checkbox empty' }],
        type: 'Checkbox',
        props: {
          style: { width: '100%' },
          children: 'option'
        }
      },
    }

  const form = useFormStore();
  // const formRenderStore = useFormRenderStore()

  const onSubmit = async (e) => {
    e?.preventDefault?.();
    const result = await form.validate();
    console.log(result, 'result');
  };

  return (
    <div>
      <RenderForm
        form={form}
        // formrender={formRenderStore}
        properties={properties}
        watch={watch} />
      <div style={{ marginLeft: '120px' }}>
        <Button onClick={onSubmit}>submit</Button>
      </div>
    </div>
  );
}

multiple RenderFormChildren demo

The form engine also supports multiple RenderFormChildren components to render and then the Form component to handle the form values in a unified manner.

• useFormStore: hook to provide a class for form value processing. provided by the default component itself, or passed in by external props.
• useFormRenderStore: hook to provide a class for form rendering, provided by the default component itself, or passed in by external props.

import React, { useState } from 'react';
import RenderForm, { RenderFormChildren, Form, useFormStore, useFormRenderStore } from './form-render';
import { Button } from 'antd';
export default function Demo(props) {
  
  const properties1 = {
    part1: {
      label: "part1input",
      rules: [{ required: true, message: 'empty' }],
      initialValue: 1,
      type: 'Input',
      props: {}
    },
  }

  const properties2 = {
    part2: {
      label: "part2input",
      rules: [{ required: true, message: 'empty' }],
      initialValue: 1,
      type: 'Input',
      props: {}
    },
  }

  const form = useFormStore();
  // const formRenderStore1 = useFormRenderStore()
  // const formRenderStore2 = useFormRenderStore()

  const onSubmit = async (e) => {
    e?.preventDefault?.();
    const result = await form.validate();
    console.log(result, 'result');
  };

  return (
    <div style={{ padding: '0 8px' }}>
      <Form form={form}>
        <div>
          <p>part1</p>
          <RenderFormChildren
            // formrender={formRenderStore1}
            properties={properties1}
          />
        </div>
        <div>
          <p>part2</p>
          <RenderFormChildren
            // formrender={formRenderStore2}
            properties={properties2}
          />
        </div>
      </Form>
      <div style={{ marginLeft: '120px' }}>
        <Button onClick={onSubmit}>submit</Button>
      </div>
    </div>
  );
}

4. Array data

support render array

import React, { useState } from 'react';
import RenderForm, { useFormStore } from './form-render';
import { Button } from 'antd';
export default function Demo(props) {
  
  const properties =
    [
      {
        label: "list-0",
        rules: [{ required: true, message: 'name1 empty' }],
        initialValue: 1,
        type: 'Input',
        props: {}
      },
      {
        label: "list-1",
        rules: [{ required: true, message: 'name1 empty' }],
        initialValue: 2,
        type: 'Input',
        props: {}
      },
      {
        label: "list-2",
        rules: [{ required: true, message: 'name1 empty' }],
        initialValue: 3,
        type: 'Input',
        props: {}
      },
      {
        label: "list-3",
        rules: [{ required: true, message: 'name1 empty' }],
        initialValue: 4,
        type: 'Input',
        props: {}
      },
    ]

  const form = useFormStore();

  const onSubmit = async (e) => {
    e?.preventDefault?.();
    const result = await form.validate();
    console.log(result, 'result');
  };

  return (
    <div style={{ padding: '0 8px' }}>
      <RenderForm
        form={form}
        // formrender={formRenderStore}
        properties={properties}
        watch={watch} />
      <div style={{ marginLeft: '120px' }}>
        <Button onClick={onSubmit}>submit</Button>
      </div>
    </div>
  );
}

API

RenderFormChildren's props

Properties of the form rendering component:

• properties: { [name: string]: FormNodeProps } | FormNodeProps[] Rendering json data in the form of a DSL for a form.
• watch：can listen to changes in the value of any field, for example:

const watch = {
  'name1': (newValue, oldValue) => {
    // console.log(newValue, oldValue)
  },
  'name2[0]': (newValue, oldValue) => {
    // console.log(newValue, oldValue)
  },
  'name3': {
      handler: (newValue, oldValue) => {
        // console.log(newValue, oldValue)
      }
      immediate: true
  }
  ...
  <RenderForm watch={watch} />
}

• components：register other component for form to use.
• options： GenerateFormNodeProps | ((params: GenerateFormNodeProps) => any) Information about the parameters passed to the form node component. Lower priority than the form node's own parameters
• renderList: function that provides custom rendering List.
• renderItem: function that provides custom render item.
• onPropertiesChange: (newValue: ProertiesData) => void; Callback function when properties is changed
• formrender: The form class responsible for rendering. Created with useFormRenderStore().
• uneval: Do not execute string expressions in the form.
• expressionImports: External variables to be introduced in the string expression.

Form's Props

from react-easy-formcore

• 6.2.7 When the default component RenderForm reports an error in the form tag in the nested case, you can set tagName to be replaced by another tag.

FormRenderStore Methods

Only responsible for the rendering of the form

• updateItemByPath: (data?: any, path?: string, attributeName?: string) => void Update the node corresponding to path path, if updating specific attributes in the node then attributeName parameter is required
• setItemByPath: (data?: any, path?: string, attributeName?: string) => void Set the node corresponding to path path, or attributeName if setting specific attributes in the node
• updateNameByPath: (newName?: string, path: string) => void Update the name key of the specified path
• delItemByPath: (path?: string, attributeName?: string) => void Deletes the node corresponding to path path, or the attributeName parameter if the specific attribute in the node is deleted
• insertItemByIndex: (data: InsertItemType, index?: number, parent?: { path?: string, attributeName?: string }) => void Add options based on the serial number and parent node path
• getItemByPath: (path?: string, attributeName?: string) => void Get the node corresponding to path path, or attributeName if it is a specific attribute in the node
• moveItemByPath: (from: { parent?: string, index: number }, to: { parent?: string, index?: number }) Swap options in the tree from one location to another
• setProperties: (data?: Partial<FormNodeProps>) => void Set properties.

Hooks

• useFormRenderStore(): create new FormRenderStore() by hook.
• useFormStore(defaultValues): create new FormStore() by hook.

Other

properties

Each item in the properties property is a form node, and the nodes are divided into nested nodes and control nodes.

• Nested nodes: Nodes with properties property describe which component the node is by the type and props fields, and do not carry form field components.
• Control nodes: Nodes without the properties property carry a form field component by default, providing some of the functionality of a form field. the default form field properties are inherited from the Form.Item or the Form.List component in react-easy-formcore.

// `name3` is Nested nodes，but not set component，`first` and `second` is Control nodes with form fields component。
const properties = {
  name3: {
    // type: '',
    // props: {},
    properties: {
      first: {
        label: 'first',
        rules: [{ required: true, message: 'first empty' }],
        type: 'Select',
        props: {
          style: { width: '100%' },
          children: [{ type: 'Select.Option', props: { key: 1, value: '1', children: 'option1' } }]
        }
      },
      second: {
        label: 'second',
        rules: [{ required: true, message: 'second empty' }],
        type: 'Select',
        props: {
          style: { width: '100%' },
          children: [{ type: 'Select.Option', props: { key: 1, value: '1', children: 'option1' } }]
        }
      }
    }
  },
}

• formNode type

// form component
export interface FormComponent {
  type?: string;
  props?: any & { children?: any | Array<FormComponent> };
  hidden?: string | boolean;
}
export type UnionComponent<P> =
  | React.ComponentType<P>
  | React.ForwardRefExoticComponent<P>
  | React.FC<P>
  | keyof React.ReactHTML;
export type CustomUnionType = FormComponent | Array<FormComponent> | UnionComponent<any> | Function | ReactNode
// The type of nodes in the form tree
export interface FormNodeProps extends FormItemProps, FormComponent {
  hidden?: string | boolean;
  ignore?: boolean; // Mark the current field as a non-form field
  inside?: CustomUnionType; // FormNode inner nested components
  outside?: CustomUnionType; // FormNode outside nested components
  readOnly?: boolean; // readonly？
  readOnlyRender?: CustomUnionType | ReactNode; // form field's component render
  typeRender?: any; // form field's component render
  properties?: { [name: string]: FormNodeProps } | FormNodeProps[]; // Nested form components Nested objects when they are objects, or collections of arrays when they are array types
}

Property Passing

• The properties of the form node are set globally:

import RenderForm, { RenderFormChildren, useFormStore, Form } from "./form-render"

const properties = {
   name3: {
     label: "name3",
     type: 'Input',
     props: {}
   },
 }
 
 const form = useFormStore();

 // first way
 <RenderForm
   options={{
     layout: 'vertical', // Attributes of a node
     props: { disabled: true } // Properties of the component rendered by the 'type' field in the node
   }}
 />
 // second way was only sets the properties of the form field component (Form.Item).
 // <Form form={form} layout="vertical">
 //   <RenderFormChildren
 //     properties={properties1}
 //   />
 // </Form>

• Contextual information received by any component registered in the form:

export interface GeneratePrams<T = {}> {
 name?: string; // Form fields of the node where the component is located
 path?: string; // The rendering path of the node where the component is located
 parent?: { name?: string; path?: string, field?: T & GenerateFormNodeProps; }; // Information about the parent node of the component
 field?: T & GenerateFormNodeProps; // Information about the node where the component is located
 formrender?: FormRenderStore;
 form?: FormStore;
};

Path rules involved in the form

Forms are allowed to be nested, so they will involve finding a certain property. The paths follow certain rules

for Example:

• a[0] means the first option under the array a
• a.b denotes the b attribute of the a object
• a[0].b means the b attribute of the first option under the array a

Expression Usage

All property fields in form nodes except properties can support string expressions for linkage

1. Quick use: Computational expressions wrapping target property values with {{ and }}

  const properties = {
    name1: {
      label: 'name1',
      valueProp: 'checked',
      initialValue: true,
      type: 'Checkbox',
      props: {
        children: 'option'
      }
    },
    name2: {
      label: "name2",
      rules: '{{[{ required: formvalues && formvalues.name1 === true, message: "name2 is empty" }]}}',
      initialValue: 1,
      type: 'Input',
      props: {}
    },
  }

  // OR

  const properties = {
    name1: {
      label: 'name1',
      valueProp: 'checked',
      initialValue: true,
      type: 'Checkbox',
      props: {
        children: 'option'
      }
    },
    name2: {
      label: "name2",
      rules: [{ required: '{{formvalues && formvalues.name1 === true}}', message: "name2 is empty" }],
      initialValue: 1,
      type: 'Input',
      props: {}
    },
  }

2. Rules for using string expressions

• A string has and can have only one pair of {{ and }}.
• In addition to the three built-in variables (form(equal useFormStore()), formrender(equal useFormRenderStore()), formvalues(form value object)), external variables can be introduced via expressionImports, and then referenced directly within the string expression and then refer to the variable name directly within the string expression.
• Starting from 6.2.5, it is recommended to leave out the $ symbol. It removed in 7.x versions.

 import moment from 'moment'
 import RenderForm from "./form-render"

 const properties = {
    name3: {
      label: "name3",
      initialValue: "{{moment().format('YYYY-MM-DD')}}",
      type: 'Input',
      props: {}
    },
  }
  
  <RenderForm properties={properties} expressionImports={{ moment }} />