HTML::FormHandler fill in default value

[keenlearner]

Hi, experts, I am using HTML::FormHandler and trying to fill in value into the input type="text" , I am new to Moose, I try to read the code in FormHandler but still cannot find the way to fill default value into the input text. Has anybody achieve this ? Thanks.

    my $args =  {
        name       => 'test_form',
        field_list => [
            'username' => {
                type  => 'Text',
                apply => [ { check => qr/^[0-9a-z]*/,
                   message => 'Contains invalid characters' } ]
            }
        ]
    };
    my $form = HTML::FormHandler->new( %$args );
    my $renderedform = $form->render;
    print $renderedform;

[kcott]

Have you tried the Defaults section of HTML::FormHandler::Manual::Intro?

I'm not familiar with HTML::FormHandler but, from the documentation, it looks like you could use:

...
            'username' => {
                type  => 'Text',
                default => 'default text',
                apply => ...

[Anonymous Monk]

I try to read the code in FormHandler but still cannot find the way to fill default value into the input text.

Try reading the docs, and the examples (test suite) instead

http://search.cpan.org/~gshank/HTML-FormHandler-0.36002/lib/HTML/FormHandler.pm#defaults

http://search.cpan.org/grep?cpanid=GSHANK&release=HTML-FormHandler-0.36002&string=default&i=1&n=1&C=0

http://search.cpan.org/~gshank/HTML-FormHandler-0.36002/MANIFEST

http://search.cpan.org/src/GSHANK/HTML-FormHandler-0.36002/t/defaults.t

[keenlearner]

Wow...I have read that document but didn't understand that that default is actually pointing to the value. Thanks it works.

[sundialsvc4]

In quite a few situations, the “default value” is something that produces a value.