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diff --git a/vendor/github.com/gorilla/schema/doc.go b/vendor/github.com/gorilla/schema/doc.go new file mode 100644 index 00000000..22c0ff4b --- /dev/null +++ b/vendor/github.com/gorilla/schema/doc.go @@ -0,0 +1,148 @@ +// Copyright 2012 The Gorilla Authors. All rights reserved. +// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style +// license that can be found in the LICENSE file. + +/* +Package gorilla/schema fills a struct with form values. + +The basic usage is really simple. Given this struct: + + type Person struct { + Name string + Phone string + } + +...we can fill it passing a map to the Load() function: + + values := map[string][]string{ + "Name": {"John"}, + "Phone": {"999-999-999"}, + } + person := new(Person) + decoder := schema.NewDecoder() + decoder.Decode(person, values) + +This is just a simple example and it doesn't make a lot of sense to create +the map manually. Typically it will come from a http.Request object and +will be of type url.Values: http.Request.Form or http.Request.MultipartForm: + + func MyHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { + err := r.ParseForm() + + if err != nil { + // Handle error + } + + decoder := schema.NewDecoder() + // r.PostForm is a map of our POST form values + err := decoder.Decode(person, r.PostForm) + + if err != nil { + // Handle error + } + + // Do something with person.Name or person.Phone + } + +Note: it is a good idea to set a Decoder instance as a package global, +because it caches meta-data about structs, and a instance can be shared safely: + + var decoder = schema.NewDecoder() + +To define custom names for fields, use a struct tag "schema". To not populate +certain fields, use a dash for the name and it will be ignored: + + type Person struct { + Name string `schema:"name"` // custom name + Phone string `schema:"phone"` // custom name + Admin bool `schema:"-"` // this field is never set + } + +The supported field types in the destination struct are: + + * bool + * float variants (float32, float64) + * int variants (int, int8, int16, int32, int64) + * string + * uint variants (uint, uint8, uint16, uint32, uint64) + * struct + * a pointer to one of the above types + * a slice or a pointer to a slice of one of the above types + +Non-supported types are simply ignored, however custom types can be registered +to be converted. + +To fill nested structs, keys must use a dotted notation as the "path" for the +field. So for example, to fill the struct Person below: + + type Phone struct { + Label string + Number string + } + + type Person struct { + Name string + Phone Phone + } + +...the source map must have the keys "Name", "Phone.Label" and "Phone.Number". +This means that an HTML form to fill a Person struct must look like this: + + <form> + <input type="text" name="Name"> + <input type="text" name="Phone.Label"> + <input type="text" name="Phone.Number"> + </form> + +Single values are filled using the first value for a key from the source map. +Slices are filled using all values for a key from the source map. So to fill +a Person with multiple Phone values, like: + + type Person struct { + Name string + Phones []Phone + } + +...an HTML form that accepts three Phone values would look like this: + + <form> + <input type="text" name="Name"> + <input type="text" name="Phones.0.Label"> + <input type="text" name="Phones.0.Number"> + <input type="text" name="Phones.1.Label"> + <input type="text" name="Phones.1.Number"> + <input type="text" name="Phones.2.Label"> + <input type="text" name="Phones.2.Number"> + </form> + +Notice that only for slices of structs the slice index is required. +This is needed for disambiguation: if the nested struct also had a slice +field, we could not translate multiple values to it if we did not use an +index for the parent struct. + +There's also the possibility to create a custom type that implements the +TextUnmarshaler interface, and in this case there's no need to registry +a converter, like: + + type Person struct { + Emails []Email + } + + type Email struct { + *mail.Address + } + + func (e *Email) UnmarshalText(text []byte) (err error) { + e.Address, err = mail.ParseAddress(string(text)) + return + } + +...an HTML form that accepts three Email values would look like this: + + <form> + <input type="email" name="Emails.0"> + <input type="email" name="Emails.1"> + <input type="email" name="Emails.2"> + </form> +*/ +package schema |