view tools/form2table.lua @ 12956:52fcdfe710ca

storagemanager: Add keyval+ (combined keyval + map) store type This combines the two most common store types, which modules often end up opening with both interfaces separately anyway. As well as combining them, I've taken the opportunity to improve some of the method names to make them clearer.
author Matthew Wild <mwild1@gmail.com>
date Tue, 27 Sep 2022 17:46:27 +0100
parents 9d1ce6f28401
children 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 }))