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tools/form2table.lua @ 11369:87105a9a11df

util.datamanager: Support iterating over any file extension The 'typ' argument to all other functions is the actual file extension, but not here for some reason. May need this for iterating over the .bin files created by mod_http_file_share in the future.
author Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se>
date Sun, 07 Feb 2021 19:23:33 +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 }))