Custom widget to validate user input

Not really a question but I could not find a lot of information in the documentation or the existing contributed projects.

I have a form with SIREN / SIRET fields (those are identification numbers for french companies). A siren is 9 digits and a siret is 14. I could easily use standard widgets for the length but that was all.

So I created a custom widget starting with pbInput standard widget (workspace/default/web_widgets). I removed minLength, maxLength, type, min value, max value and and added an inputType property which value can be siren or siret (default: siren).

The template I used is derivated from pbInput:

<div ng-class="{
    'form-horizontal': properties.labelPosition === 'left' && !properties.labelHidden,
    'row': properties.labelPosition === 'top' && !properties.labelHidden || properties.labelHidden
    }">
    <div class="form-group">
        <label
            ng-if="!properties.labelHidden"
            ng-class="{ 'control-label--required': properties.required }"
            class="control-label col-xs-{{ !properties.labelHidden && properties.labelPosition === 'left' ? properties.labelWidth : 12 }}">
            {{ properties.label | uiTranslate }}
        </label>
        <div class="col-xs-{{ 12 - (!properties.labelHidden && properties.labelPosition === 'left' ? properties.labelWidth : 0) }}">
            <input
                type="text"
                class="form-control {{ properties.inputType }}"
                placeholder="{{ properties.placeholder | uiTranslate }}"
                ng-model="properties.value"
                name="{{ ctrl.name }}"
                sirensiret 
                ng-required="properties.required"
                ng-readonly="properties.readOnly">
            <div ng-messages="$form[ctrl.name].$dirty && $form[ctrl.name].$error" ng-messages-include="forms-generic-errors.html" role="alert">
                <div class="text-danger" ng-show="$form[ctrl.name].$error.integer">Cette valeur n'est pas un nombre valide</div>
                <div class="text-danger" ng-show="$form[ctrl.name].$error.inputLength">La longueur d'un {{ properties.inputType | uppercase }} est de {{ ctrl.inputLen }} chiffres.</div>
                <div class="text-danger" ng-show="$form[ctrl.name].$error.sirenSiretKey">La clé de validation de ce {{ properties.inputType | uppercase }} est invalide</div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

You will note the following changes: I added some new messages to the ng-messages div and added a “sirensiret” directive. I also added a class to detect input type.

The controller is really simple:

/**
* The controller is a JavaScript function that augments the AngularJS scope and exposes functions that can be used in the custom widget template
*
* Custom widget properties defined on the right can be used as variables in a controller with $scope.properties
* To use AngularJS standard services, you must declare them in the main function arguments.
*
* You can leave the controller empty if you do not need it.
*/
function ($scope, $log, widgetNameFactory) {

    this.name = widgetNameFactory.getName($scope.properties.inputType);
    this.inputLen = $scope.properties.inputType == 'siren' ? 9 : 14;

    $log.error ("tiersSirenSiretInput controler is here to serve!");

    if (!$scope.properties.isBound('value')) {
        $log.error('the pbInput property named "value" need to be bound to a variable');
    }
}

This is almost the standard controller. I just initialize the default length for error messages.

Then I added a custom asset checkSirenSiret.js that add some directives to bonitasoft.ui.extensions:

var app = angular.module ('bonitasoft.ui.extensions', []);
var INTEGER_REGEXP = /^\-?\d+$/;
var SIREN_REGEXP = /^\d{9}$/;
var SIRET_REGEXP = /^\d{14}$/;

app.directive('sirensiret', function() {
  return {
    require: 'ngModel',
    link: function(scope, elm, attrs, ctrl) {
		
		function validateSirenSiret(ngModelValue, ngViewValue) {
			
			// Default is OK.
			ctrl.$setValidity('integer', true);
			ctrl.$setValidity('inputLength', true);
			ctrl.$setValidity('sirenSiretKey', true);
			
			// non empty => make additional controls!
			if (!ctrl.$isEmpty(ngModelValue)) {
				// Only numbers
				ctrl.$setValidity('integer', INTEGER_REGEXP.test(ngModelValue));
				
				// Check length
				var isSiren = angular.element(elm).hasClass('siren');
				var lengthOk = false;
				
				if (isSiren) {
					lengthOk = SIREN_REGEXP.test(ngModelValue);
				} else {
					lengthOk = SIRET_REGEXP.test(ngModelValue);
				}
				
				ctrl.$setValidity('inputLength', lengthOk);
				
				// Check key
				if (lengthOk) {
					var nb = ngModelValue.split('');
					var i;
					var check = 0;
					var x;
					
					for (i = 0; i < nb.length; i++) {
						x = nb[nb.length - i - 1] * ((i % 2) + 1);
						if (x < 10) {
							check += x;
						} else {
							check += Math.floor(x / 10) + (x % 10);
						}
					}
					
					if ((check % 10) != 0) {
						ctrl.$setValidity('sirenSiretKey', false);
					}
				}
			}
			
			// Return ngModelValue to display it
			return ngModelValue;
		}
		
		ctrl.$parsers.push(validateSirenSiret);
    }
  };
});

I use $parsers as it is a little bit more flexible than $validators (I would have to write multiple validators, I can use only one parser). Nothing special about this code: first check if the input is a number, then the length, then the Luhn key used to validate the input.

Hope this helps some others.

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code blocks are not really working… I will have to put a .zip somewhere!

Add it to projects?

Whenever I use code blocks I type it - works much better.

< code >

< /code >

(remove the spaces) and it formats wonderfully

regards
Seán

thanks for the tip!
I will give a look at projects.