form-filler

Fill forms with a single button for faster development and testing.

Installation

The easiest way to use form-filler is to install it from NPM.

$ npm install form-filler@latest --save-dev

Basic Usage

• Say you have this form:

<form id="form-id">
  <input type="checkbox" id="check1"/>
  <label>Check 1</label>
  
  <label for="radio1">Radio 1</label> 
  <input type="radio" name="radiogroup" id="radio1" value="radio1" /> 
  
  <select id="select1">
    <option>1</option>
    <option value="testing">testing</option>
    <option>3</option>
  </select>

  <select id="select2">
    <option>1</option>
    <option>2</option>
    <option>3</option>
  </select>

  <select id="select3">
    <option>1</option>
    <option>2</option>
    <option>3</option>
  </select>
  
  <input type="text" id="text1"/>
  <input type="text" id="text2"/>

  <textarea id="textarea1"></textarea>
</form>

• Add a button to help you fill the form. Give it a custom class or use the following class name:

<button class="form-filler">Fill Form</button>

• In you JavaScript code initialize the form-filler. This will bind a click event to the button you set up in the previous step and fill out the form with the object you've provided:

Note: you must initialize the DOM before calling the fill function, otherwise it will not work.

var FormFiller = require('form-filler');

// or using ES6 syntax
import FormFiller from 'form-filler';

var map = {check: ["check1"],
           radio: ["radio1"],
           select: [{id: "select1", value: "testing"},
                    "select2",
                    {id: "select3", index: 0}],
           text: [{id: "text1", text: "Testing some text here!"},
                  "text2",
                  {id: "textarea1", long: true}]};

FormFiller.fill(map);

• The map is a key-value object which supports the following:

  • Keys
    • check for checkboxes.
    • radio for radio buttons.
    • select for select tags.
    • text for text fields and textareas.
  • Values:
    • check key: Array of plain IDs, e.g: ["id1", "id2"].
    • radio key: Array of plain IDs, e.g: ["id1", "id2"].
    • select key: Array of plain IDs (last option is selected), e.g: ["id1", "id2"], or a mixture of:
      • Plain IDs (last option is selected), e.g: "id1"
      • Maps:
        • {id: "element-id-here", value: "value-of-option"}
        • {id: "element-id-here", index: 1}
          • index is the index of the option to be selected (staring at 0)
    • text key: Array of plain IDs, e.g: ["id1", "id2"], or a mixture of:
      • Plain IDs, e.g: "id1"
      • Maps:
        • {id: "element-id-here", text: "Your custom text here!"}
        • {id: "textarea-id-here", long: true}
          • long will fill the textarea/text field with long text.

Advanced Usage

• You can provide the fill function a custom class name for the fill button we added in a previous step:

FormFiller.fill(map, "custom-button-class");

• If you just want to fill the entire form, use the fillAll function, and provide a form ID:

FormFiller.fillAll("your-form-id");

// OR
FormFiller.fillAll("your-form-id", "custom-button-class");

• You can save the form state in a bookmarklet if you do not want to add any form state in your code. Call the following with the <form> ID and the <a> tag's ID. This will fill the href of the <a> tag with the bookmarklet code.

FormFiller.saveBind('form-id', 'link-id');

• Example:

// Using JQuery bind a button to trigger the above function on click
$('#some-button-id').on('click', function() {
  FormFiller.saveBind('form-id', 'link-id');
});

API Reference

• FormFiller.fill(map[, buttonClassName]);

• FormFiller.fillAll(formId[, buttonClassName]);

• FormFiller.saveBind(formId, linkId);

• form-filler is the default buttonClassName.

Motivation

We have previously built our own custom form filler on one of our projects and decided that this is much more valuable as a library.

Tests

Test are in the test/ directory.

Run tests using:

$ npm test

Todo

• Tests

Contributing

• Fork it
• Create your feature branch
• Add your changes, and add a test for the changes.
• Run tests using

  $ npm test

• Make sure everything is passing
• Push to the branch
• Create a new Pull Request

License

Copyright (c) 2016 ButterCloud LLC.

MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.