Description

This is a FirstSpirit form field mapper that transfer data from a java class via annotations to a form field and vise versa.

Features

• Map different kind of java types from and to java class via annotations
  • String <-> String
  • Date <-> Date
  • Boolean <-> Boolean
  • Number<-> Number
  • String (HTML) <-> DomElement
  • Collection <-> FormDataList (inline, database)
  • String <-> Option
  • Entity (native, database) <-> Option
  • Collection <-> Collection
  • Collection ((native, database) <-> Collection
  • DatasetContainer <-> Class
  • Annotations can be used in Setter, Getter or accessible class attributes
  • Map nested java classes for example FirstSpirit FormDataList with section templates

  Installation

  • Maven is required
  • Git is required
  • Clone project via git because no public artifact is available.

  Via Maven Repo (local or remote)

  Maven

  <dependency>
      <groupId>com.diva-e.firstspirit</groupId>
      <artifactId>form-field-mapper</artifactId>
      <version>${form-field-mapper-version}</version>
  </dependency>
  

  Ho to use it

  Usage start with creation of a reusable (stateless) FormFieldMapper instance:

  FormFieldMapper formFieldMapper = new FormFieldMapper();

  Usage, reading from FirstSpirit

  FormData formData = <getFormDataViaAPI()>
  Language language = <getLanguageForAllFormFieldFromViaAPIOrNull()>
  

  DTO dto = new DTO() {
  
  	@FormField("<FirstSpiritFormFieldName>")
  	public <SupportedClassOrCollection> attribute;
  
  	@FormField("<OtherFirstSpiritFormFieldName>")
  	public void setOtherAttribute(<SupportedClassOrCollection> otherAttribute) {
  		...
  	}
  }
  

  formFieldMapper.map(formData, dto, language);

  Usage, writing to FirstSpirit

  DTO dto = new DTO() {
  
  	@FormField("<FirstSpiritFormFieldName>")
  	public <SupportedClassOrCollection> attribute;
  
  	@FormField("<OtherFirstSpiritFormFieldName>")
  	public <SupportedClassOrCollection> getOtherAttribute() {
  		...
  	}
  }
  

  FormData formData = <getFormDataViaAPI()>
  Language language = <getLanguageForAllFormFieldFromViaAPIOrNull()>
  

  formFieldMapper.map(dto, formData, language);

  Mapping FormFields with section templates like in FormDataList

  @Template("<FirstSpiritTemplateName>")
  public class Source {
  
  	@FormField(<FirstSpiritFormFieldName>")
  	public <SupportedClassOrCollection> attribute;
  }
  

  public class DTO {
  
  	@FormField(<FirstSpiritFormFieldName>")
  	public Collection<Source> attribute;
  }
  

  FormData formData = <getFormDataViaAPI()>
  Language language = <getLanguageForAllFormFieldFromViaAPIOrNull()>
  

  formFieldMapper.map(dto, formData, language);

  Mapping Entities with extra class as database query like in Option

  public static class Source {
      @FormField(<FirstSpiritFormFieldName>")
   	public <SupportedClass> attribute;
  }
  
  @Database("database")
  public static class SupportedClass {
      @FormField(value = "fs_id", isEntityName = true)
      public Long fsId;
  }
  

  FormData formData = <getFormDataViaAPI()>
  Language language = <getLanguageForAllFormFieldFromViaAPIOrNull()>
  

  formFieldMapper.map(dto, formData, language);

  Ho to add custom mapping strategies

  You can add new mapping strategies by using this method FormFieldMapper#addStrategy