NAME

Dancer::Plugin::ValidateTiny - Validate::Tiny Dancer plugin.

VERSION

Version 0.04

SYNOPSIS

Easy and cool validating data with Validate::Tiny module:

use Dancer::Plugin::ValidateTiny;

post '/' => sub {
    my $params = params;
    my $data_valid = 0;

    # Validating params with rule file
    my $data = validator($params, 'form.pl');

    if($data->{valid}) { ... }
};

Rule file is pretty too:

{
    # Fields for validating
    fields => [ qw/login email password password2/ ],
    filters => [
        qr/.+/ => filter(qw/trim strip/),    
        email => filter('lc'),
    ],
    checks => [
        [ qw/login email password password2/ ] => is_required("Field required!"),
        
        login => is_long_between( 2, 25, 'Your login should have between 2 and 25 characters.' ),
        email => sub {
            check_email($_[0], "Please enter a valid email address.");
            },
        password => is_long_between( 4, 40, 'Your password should have between 4 and 40 characters.' ),
        password2 => is_equal("password", "Passwords don't match"),
    ],
}

Note, that @_ in anonymous sub in checks section contains value to be checked and a reference to the filtered input hash. Check Validate::Tiny documentation for this.

DESCRIPTION

Simple Dancer plugin for use Validate::Tiny module.

It provides simple use for Validate::Tiny way of validating user input with Dancer applications with some additions and modifications, such as separate files for rules and additional functions for data validation.

METHODS

validate

This is the main method, that receiving params from POST or GET (or whatever), and filename, which contains rules for validation:

my $params = params;
my $data = validator($params, 'form.pl');

After this, in $data you'll have a structure like:

{
  'valid' => 0,
  'result' => {
              'err_login' => 'Your login should have between 4 and 25 characters.',
              'err_email' => 'Please enter a valid email address.',
              'err_password' => 'Field required!'
              'login' => 'foo',
              'email' => 'test input',
              'password' => ''
            }
};

Where valid field is an indicator, that you can use like if($data->{valid}) { ... }.

And result field, that contains already filtered params and error messages for them with special prefixes. Note, that you can set up "error_prefix" in config file.

RULE FILES

In your Dancer application directory you need to create sub-directory for rule files and place here rules, that you will use for validation. In this files you need to create a simple structure like this one:

{
    fields => [qw/city zip_code/],
    checks => [
        [qw/city zip_code/] => is_required("Field required!"),
        
        city => is_long_at_most( 40, 'City name is too long' ),
        zip_code => is_long_at_least( 5, 'Bad zip code' ),
    ],
}

For other rules, you can refer to the documentation of Validate::Tiny module.

After creating rule file, you just need to specify it's name in "validate" method. Simple, yeah? :)

ADDITIONAL RULES

There is some additional subroutines, that you can use in rule files:

check_email

{
    fields => "email",
    filters => [
        email => filter('trim', 'strip', 'lc')
    ],
    checks => [
        email => sub { check_email($_[0], "Please enter a valid e-mail address.") },
    ],
}

This subroutine checking e-mail address conforms to the RFC822 specification with Email::Valid.

Note, that checks processing data, that already filtered by filters.

CONFIG

In your config file you can use these settings:

plugins:
  ValidateTiny:
    rules_dir: validation
    error_prefix: err_
    is_full: 0

Where:

rules_dir

Directory, where you will store your rule files. Plugin looking it in your Dancer application root.

error_prefix

Prefix, that used to separate error fields from normal values in result hash. It is very convenient when you use the template engine, such as Template::Toolkit or HTML::Template. You simply pass the data to the template engine, and it handles the logic of output errors and/or warnings for user.

is_full

If this option is set to 1, call of validator returning an object, that you can use as standart Validate::Tiny object.

SEE ALSO

Validate::Tiny Dancer::Plugin::FormValidator Dancer::Plugin::DataFu

AUTHOR

Alexey Kolganov, <kalgan@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2011 by Alexey Kolganov

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.1 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

cpanm Dancer::Plugin::ValidateTiny

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Dancer::Plugin::ValidateTiny