view tools/form2table.lua @ 11995:bbd3ac65640d

mod_cron: Initialize daily tasks so they run around midnight UTC Eventually the goal is to have daily tasks run while there is little activity, but that will vary with the server and the usage patterns of its users. This is a start anyway.
author Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se>
date Fri, 03 Dec 2021 00:11:31 +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 }))