dataforms

strophe.x.js

strophe.x.js is a plugin to provide Data Forms ( XEP-0004 ).

Usage

Creating data elements

Creating a form is easy:

new Strophe.x.Form({
  type: "submit",
  title: "myTitle",
  instructions: "Tell something",
  fields: [f1, f2]
});

You can call the constructor for Forms directly with $form:

$form({
  ...
});

You can also use items within the form:

$form({
  type: "result",
  title: "Search result",
  items: [ item1, { fields: [f1,f5]}, item3 ]
});

Here you don't have to define the reported property (it is generated automatically).

Creating fields is similar

new Strophe.x.Field({
  type: "text-single",
  "var": "myVariableName",
  desc: "a description",
  label: "My Label",
  required: true,
  value: 1234
});

Fields also have a shorthand:

$field({
  ...
});

You can also use options

$field({
  type: "list-multi",
  "var": "myVariableName",
  desc: "a description",
  label: "My Label",
  required: true,
  values: ["a", "c"],
  options: [
    {label:"One", value: "a"},
    {label:"Two", value: "b"},
    {label:"Three", value: "c"}
]});

Convert to XML, HTML or JSON

Every object can be converted to xml by using the toXML, toHML or toJSON function

Parse XML

You can easily create a form by parsing XML:

var Form = Strophe.x.Form.fromXML(xml);

The same can be done with fromHML for HTML as source.

Dependencies

• jQuery