Formulary 0.4

You want to add pod 'Formulary', '~> 0.4' similar to the following to your Podfile:

target 'MyApp' do
  pod 'Formulary', '~> 0.4'
end

Then run a pod install inside your terminal, or from CocoaPods.app.

Alternatively to give it a test run, run the command:

pod try Formulary

Formulary 0.4

By
Fabian Cañas
fcanas

Formulary

Formulary is a new library for creating dynamic, declarative, table view forms for iOS.

Formulary is in early stages of design and development, so if you jump in now, you can have a big impact on the library’s design, power, and utility.

Formulary is inspired by XLForm, written in Swift, and designed for simplicity and development speed.

Other cool features:

“Floating Labels” for form fields.
Composable validation functions

let decimalFormatter = NSNumberFormatter()
decimalFormatter.maximumFractionDigits = 5

let integerFormatter = NSNumberFormatter()

self.form = Form(sections: [
    FormSection(rows: [
        TextEntryFormRow(name:"Name", tag: "name", validation: RequiredString("Name")),
        TextEntryFormRow(name: "Email", tag: "email", textType: TextEntryType.Email),
        TextEntryFormRow(name:"Age", tag: "age", textType: TextEntryType.Number, validation: MinimumNumber("Age", 13), formatter: integerFormatter)],
        name:"Profile"),
    FormSection(rows: [
        TextEntryFormRow(name:"Favorite Number", tag: "favoriteNumber", value: nil, textType: .Decimal, validation: MinimumNumber("Your favorite number", 47) && MaximumNumber("Your favorite number", 47), formatter: decimalFormatter),
        FormRow(name:"Do you like goats?", tag: "likesGoats", type: .Switch, value: false),
        TextEntryFormRow(name:"Other Thoughts?", tag: "thoughts", textType: .Plain),],
        name:"Preferences",
        footerName: "Fin"),
    OptionSection(rowValues:["Ice Cream", "Pizza", "Beer"], name: "Food", value: ["Pizza", "Ice Cream"]),
    FormSection(rows: [
        FormRow(name:"Show Values", tag: "show", type: .Button, value: nil, action: { _ in

            let data = NSJSONSerialization.dataWithJSONObject(values(self.form), options: nil, error: nil)!
            let s = NSString(data: data, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding)

            let alert = UIAlertController(title: "Form Values", message: s as? String, preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.Alert)
            alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Ok", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default, handler: nil))
            self.presentViewController(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
        })
    ])
])

Development Status

I’m using this in production, and the way I’m using works fine. YMMV.

Before a 1.0.0 release, this project follows a modified SemVer.

Major version zero (0.y.z) is for initial development. Anything may change at any time. The public API should not be considered stable.

Reasonable effort is put forth to use Patch version Z (x.y.Z | x = 0) when new, backwards compatible functionality is introduced to the public API. And for Minor version Y (x.Y.z | x = 0) when any backwards incompatible changes are introduced to the public API.

I intend to release a 1.0.0 early and have the major version number jump quickly rather than continuing with 0.y.z releases. Check Formulary’s pulse if you’re wondering about the health of the project.

Author

Fabian Canas (@fcanas)

License

Formulary is available under the MIT license.