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tools/form2table.lua @ 12983:4533c9b906b0

util.format: Tweak serialization of %q formatted entries Improves serialization of function references especially, the built-in default handling of that in util.serialization is not the most informative. Now, along with the function metatable from util.startup, the actual function can be found by filename and line number.
author Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se>
date Sun, 26 Mar 2023 00:18:05 +0100
parent 11194:9d1ce6f28401
child 13142:879a6a33c21b
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-- Read an XML dataform and spit out a serialized Lua table of it

local function from_stanza(stanza)
	local layout = {
		title = stanza:get_child_text("title");
		instructions = stanza:get_child_text("instructions");
	};
	for tag in stanza:childtags("field") do
		local field = {
			name = tag.attr.var;
			type = tag.attr.type;
			label = tag.attr.label;
			desc = tag:get_child_text("desc");
			required = tag:get_child("required") and true or nil;
			value = tag:get_child_text("value");
			options = nil;
		};

		if field.type == "list-single" or field.type == "list-multi" then
			local options = {};
			for option in tag:childtags("option") do
				options[#options+1] = { label = option.attr.label, value = option:get_child_text("value") };
			end
			field.options = options;
		end

		if field.type == "jid-multi" or field.type == "list-multi" or field.type == "text-multi" then
			local values = {};
			for value in tag:childtags("value") do
				values[#values+1] = value:get_text();
			end
			if field.type == "text-multi" then
				values = table.concat(values, "\n");
			end
			field.value = values;
		end

		if field.type == "boolean" then
			field.value = field.value == "true" or field.value == "1";
		end

		layout[#layout+1] = field;

	end
	return layout;
end

print("dataforms.new " .. require "util.serialization".serialize(from_stanza(require "util.xml".parse(io.read("*a"))), { unquoted = true }))