Class: SWS::FormElement

Inherits:

Component

• Object
• Component
• SWS::FormElement

Defined in:

lib/sws/component.rb

Overview

Base class for all components being the part of a form

Direct Known Subclasses

CheckBox, FileUpload, HiddenField, ImageButton, ListElement, PasswordField, RadioButton, ResetButton, SubmitButton, TextArea, TextField

Instance Attribute Summary

Attributes inherited from Component

#action_components, #definition_component, #encoding, #html_attrs, #method_to_call, #name, #parameters, #parent, #request, #request_number, #slots, #subcomponents, #tokens

Instance Method Summary

• #container? ⇒ Boolean

  All form parts are not container components - they do not contains other components or HTML content.

• #element_name ⇒ Object

  Returns base name attribute of HTML tag created from names of all parents separated by ‘.’.

Methods inherited from Component

#api_filename, #app, #append_to_response, #awake, #content?, create, #create_component_tree, #definition_filename, #initialize, #page, #perform_action, #process_bindings, #process_parameters, #process_request, #remove_subcomponents, #session, #set_request_subcomponents, #sleep, #slot_bound?, #subcomponent_for_name, synchronize_slot, #synchronize_slot?, #synchronize_slots, #template_filename, #tokenize_binding, #update_binding, #url_string

Constructor Details

This class inherits a constructor from SWS::Component

Instance Method Details

#container? ⇒ Boolean

All form parts are not container components - they do not contains other components or HTML content

Returns:

• (Boolean)

# File 'lib/sws/component.rb', line 566

def container? ()
	return false
end

#element_name ⇒ Object

Returns base name attribute of HTML tag created from names of all parents separated by ‘.’. Used for creating HTTP parameters containing values entered by user.

# File 'lib/sws/component.rb', line 551

def element_name ()
	
	name = @name
	component = @parent
	while ( component != nil )
		name = "#{component.name}.#{name}"
		component = component.parent
	end
	return name
	
end