vue-auto-form

vue-auto-form is a vue2 component that helpers to easily create basic forms with automatic insert and update events, and automatic reactive validation.

Installation

npm install vue-auto-form --save

And then:

import AutoForm from 'vue-auto-form'

<auto-form :schema="schema" :model="model" @submit="onSubmit"></auto-form>

Demo

Live

Source

Example

<template>
<auto-form :schema="schema" :model="model" @submit="onSubmit"></auto-form>
</teamplte>

<script>
import AutoForm from 'vue-auto-form'

// AutoForm.setTemplate('element')
// AutoForm.setLocale('zh_cn')

export default {
  components: {
    AutoForm
  },
  data () {
    return {
      schema: {
        title: {
          type: String,
          label: 'Title',
          max: 50
        },
        author: {
          type: String,
          label: 'Author'
        },
        copies: {
          type: Number,
          label: 'Number of copies',
          min: 0
        },
        lastCheckedOut: {
          type: Date,
          label: 'Last date this book was checked out',
          optional: true
        },
        summary: {
          type: String,
          label: 'Brief summary',
          rows: 5,
          optional: true,
          max: 1000
        }
      },
      model: {}
    }
  },
  methods: {
    onSubmit () {
      console.log(this.model)
    }
  }
}
</script>

Themes

AutoForm.setTemplate(template_name)

• bootstrap3
• bootstrap3_horizontal
• element
• element_horizontal

Locales

AutoForm.setLocale(locale_name)

• en_us
• zh_cn

AutoForm Properties

schema

See the “Schema Rules” section.

model

The data of form component, if model has an [id] property, the type of the form is update, otherwise is insert.

id

This property is use to de determine the type of the form is insert or update by model[id].

The default value is 'id'.

showSubmit

You can hide the submit button when you use dialog.

The default value is true.

submitLabel

The label of the submit button.

The default value is Submit.

AutoForm methods

validate()

The method to validate the whole form.

validateInput(name, value)

The method to validate a certain form input.

submit

The method to submit the form manually.

reset(force = false)

Reset all the fields and remove validation result.

AutoForm Events

submit

Triggers when submit the form or call submit() method manually.

Schema Rules

Here are some specifics about the various rules you can define in your schema.

type

type can be a standard Javascript object like:

• String
• Number
• Boolean
• Date
• Array
• Object

The default value is String.

inputType

inputType can be a standard input type like:

• text
• password
• number
• url

The default value is text when the type is String,
and number when the type is Number.

arrayType

arrayType is the array type, it can be String, Number or Date, only works when type is Array.

The default value is String.

label

A string that will be used to refer to this field in validation error messages. The default is an inflected (humanized) derivation of the key name itself. For example, the key “firstName” will have a default label of “First Name”.

placeholder

The placeholder of input or select.

The default value is (Select One) when it is select.

optional

By default, all keys are required. Set optional: true to change that.

min/max

• If type is Number or arrayType is Number,
  these rules define the minimum or maximum numeric value.
• If type is String or arrayType is String,
  these rules define the minimum or maximum string length.
• If type is Date or arrayType is Date, these rules define the minimum or maximum date.

rows

The number of rows of textarea, if you want to use textarea you can set this option.

decimal

Set to true if type is Number or inputType is Number and you want to allow non-integers. The default value is false.

step

Define the step of the number input. Used only when type is Number.

unit

Define the unit of the input.

minCount/maxCount

Define the minimum or maximum array length. Used only when type is Array.

values

An array of values that define the options of select. It can be a normal array or an array contain label and value, for example:

[1, 2, 3]

['One', 'Two', 'Three']

[
  {
    label: 'One', value: 1
  },
  {
    label: 'Two', value: 2
  }
]

defaultValue

Set this to any value that you want to be used as the default when an object does not include this field or has this field set to undefined. Default values are set only when cleaning non-modifier objects.

trueLabel/falseLabel

Define the true or false label when type is Boolean.

showType

Define what type you want to show the input, it can be '', insert, update or custom function.

disableType

Define what type you want to disable the input, it can be '', insert, update or custom function.

component

Use your custom component.

validate

Use your custom validate.

regEx

Any regular expression that must be matched for the key to be valid, or an array of regular expressions that will be tested in order.

The AutoForm.Schema.RegEx object defines standard regular expressions you can use as the value for the regEx key.

• AutoForm.Schema.RegEx.Email for emails (uses a permissive regEx recommended by W3C, which most browsers use)
• AutoForm.Schema.RegEx.Domain for external domains and the domain only (requires a tld like .com)
• AutoForm.Schema.RegEx.WeakDomain for less strict domains and IPv4 and IPv6
• AutoForm.Schema.RegEx.IP for IPv4 or IPv6
• AutoForm.Schema.RegEx.IPv4 for just IPv4
• AutoForm.Schema.RegEx.IPv6 for just IPv6
• AutoForm.Schema.RegEx.Url for http, https and ftp urls
• AutoForm.Schema.RegEx.Id for IDs generated by Random.id() of the random package, also usable to validate a relation id.

$

$ can be use to define the child type or child schema when type is Array or Object, for example:

{
  tags: {
    type: Array,
    $: {
      type: String
    }
  }
}

{
  item: {
    type: Object,
    $: {
      name: {
        type: String
      },
      quantity: {
        type: Number
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  columns: {
    type: Array,
    $: {
      type: Object,
      $: {
        name: String
      }
    }
  }
}

LICENSE

NOTE: vue-auto-form is licensed under the The MIT License. Completely free, you can arbitrarily use and modify this plugin. If this plugin is useful to you, you can Star this repo, your support is my biggest motive force, thanks.