Enhance EnumInput and Forms

- Soft-Nesting Layout to show structure without too much x-overhead
- Forms now use subgrid where possible
- Generalized form style to cover more cases and remove redundancy
- Minor definitions fix
- Made NicerForm a global component
- Updated Test Page to use global components

client/src/components/inputs/EnumInput.vue

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <script lang="ts">
 import { Index, MaybeIndex, equals } from '../../util';
-import NicerForm, { Fields } from './NicerForm.vue';
+import { Fields } from './NicerForm.vue';
 
 export type Variant = {
   fields?: Fields,
@@ -21,9 +21,11 @@ const props = withDefaults(defineProps<{
 
   // One-Way Bindings
   variants?: Variants,
+  label?: string,
 }>(), {
   modelValue: null,
   variants: () => ({}),
+  label: '',
 });
 const { variants } = $(props);
 
@@ -64,14 +66,15 @@ watchEffect(() => {
 
 </script>
 <template>
-  <div class="enum-input">
+  <div class="form">
+    <label v-text="label"/>
     <div class="pillbar">
-      <button class="variant" v-for="[index, variant] of Object.entries(variants)" :key="index" :class="{selected: currentVariant === index}" @click="() => currentVariant = index">
+      <button v-for="[index, variant] of Object.entries(variants)" :key="index" :class="{selected: currentVariant === index}" @click="() => currentVariant = index">
         <component v-if="variant.icon" :is="variant.icon"/>
         <template v-else>{{ variant.display }}</template>
       </button>
     </div>
-    <NicerForm class="enum-fields" v-if="currentVariant && variants[currentVariant]?.fields" :fields="variants[currentVariant].fields" v-model="formValue" :key="currentVariant"/>
+    <NicerForm v-if="currentVariant && variants[currentVariant]?.fields" :fields="variants[currentVariant].fields" v-model="formValue" :key="currentVariant"/>
   </div>
 </template>
 <style scoped>
@@ -79,9 +82,6 @@ watchEffect(() => {
   flex-flow: nowrap;
   gap: 0.25rem;
 }
-.variant { padding: 0.25rem; gap: 0.25rem; }
-.selected { background-color: var(--cl-bg-sl); }
-.enum-fields {
-  padding-left: 0px;
-}
+.pillbar > button { padding: 0.25rem; gap: 0.25rem; }
+.pillbar > .selected { background-color: var(--cl-bg-sl); }
 </style>

client/src/components/inputs/NicerForm.vue

@@ -50,21 +50,12 @@ watch($$(modelValue), (val) => {
 
 <template>
   <div class="form">
-    <component v-if="heading" :is="`h${headingLevel}`" :text="heading"/>
-    <template v-for="[index, field] of Object.entries(fields)" :key="index">
-      <label v-if="field.label" v-text="field.label"/>
-      <component :is="field.is" v-model="modelValue[index]" v-bind="field.props"/>
-    </template>
+    <component v-if="heading" :is="`h${headingLevel}`">{{ heading }}</component>
+    <div class="form inner-form">
+      <template v-for="[index, field] of Object.entries(fields)" :key="index">
+        <label v-if="field.label && field.is !== 'EnumInput'" v-text="field.label"/>
+        <component :is="field.is" v-model="modelValue[index]" v-bind="field.is === 'EnumInput' ? Object.assign({label: field.label}, field.props) : field.props"/>
+      </template>
+    </div>
   </div>
 </template>
-
-<style scoped>
-label::after {
-  content: ":";
-}
-
-label {
-  border-left: 1px solid var(--cl-fg);
-  border-bottom: 1px solid var(--cl-fg);
-}
-</style>

client/src/definitions.ts

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ const GetAddresses: SearchProvider = async (o) => {
 };
 
 const GetServices: SearchProvider = async (o) => {
-  let res = await apiCall('Object.services.list', {});
+  let res = await apiCall('object.services.list', {});
   if (res.Error === null) {
     console.debug('services', res.Data);
     let obj = {} as Options;

client/src/global-styles/components.css

@@ -25,19 +25,32 @@ input {
   padding: 0.25rem;
 }
 
-form, .form {
+/* Universal Form Style-Component */
+:is(form, .form) {
   display: grid;
   grid-template-columns: auto 1fr;
   padding: 0.5rem;
   gap: 0.5rem;
 }
-:is(form, .form) > :is(button, .button, h1) {
-  grid-column: 1 / 3;
+:is(form, .form) :is(form, .form) { /* Subform and EnumInput */
+  grid-column: 1 / 3; /* Maintenance: This column-end must match the column count of the host form, +1 */
+  grid-template-columns: subgrid; /* All descendants of a form align to that same form */
+  padding: 0px; /* To keep alignment, no padding is needed for those descendants */
+}
+:is(form, .form) :is(form, .form) > .inner-form { /* Soft-Nesting for Subform and EnumInput */
+  border-left: 1px solid var(--cl-fg);
+  padding-left: 0.5rem;
+}
+:is(form, .form) > :is(button, .button, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6) {
+  grid-column: 1 / 3; /* Full-Span children */
 }
 :is(form, .form) > label {
-  grid-column: 1;
+  grid-column: 1; /* Re-align unbalanced grid => allows the last column(s) to be optional */
   padding: 0.25rem;
 }
+:is(form, .form) > label::after {
+  content: ":";
+}
 
 table {
   width: 100%;

client/src/main.ts

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import './global-styles/mlfe.css';
 import './global-styles/transitions.css';
 import 'vue-toast-notification/dist/theme-default.css';
 
+import NicerForm from './components/inputs/NicerForm.vue';
 import PillBar from './components/inputs/PillBar.vue';
 import TextBox from './components/inputs/TextBox.vue';
 import EnumInput from './components/inputs/EnumInput.vue';
@@ -34,6 +35,7 @@ app.use(head);
 app.use(ToastPlugin);
 
 // Global Components
+app.component('NicerForm', NicerForm);
 app.component('PillBar', PillBar);
 app.component('TextBox', TextBox);
 app.component('NumberBox', NumberBox);

client/src/pages/test.vue

@@ -1,10 +1,5 @@
 <script setup lang="ts">
-import SingleSelect from '../components/inputs/SingleSelect.vue';
 import { SearchProvider, Options } from '../components/inputs/DropdownInput.vue';
-import MultiSelect from '../components/inputs/MultiSelect.vue';
-import NicerForm from '../components/inputs/NicerForm.vue';
-import EnumInput from '../components/inputs/EnumInput.vue';
-import TextBox from '../components/inputs/TextBox.vue';
 
 const testValues: Options = {
   1: { display: 'Option 1' },
@@ -28,18 +23,24 @@ function genSP(indexIsChar: boolean): SearchProvider {
   <div>
     <PageHeader title="Test Page"/>
     <NicerForm :fields="{
-      Single: { is: SingleSelect, label: 'SingleSelect', props: { options: testValues, searchProvider: genSP(true) } },
-      Multiple: { is: MultiSelect, label: 'Multiselect', props: { options: testValues, searchProvider: genSP(false) } },
-      IP: { is: EnumInput, label: 'IP Address', props: { variants: {
+      Single: { is: 'SingleSelect', label: 'SingleSelect', props: { options: testValues, searchProvider: genSP(true) } },
+      Multiple: { is: 'MultiSelect', label: 'Multiselect', props: { options: testValues, searchProvider: genSP(false) } },
+      IP: { is: 'EnumInput', label: 'IP Address', props: { variants: {
         'dhcp': { display: 'DHCP' },
         'static-ipv4': {
           display: 'Static (IPV4)',
           fields: {
-            ip: { is: TextBox, label: 'IP Address + CIDR' },
-            gw: { is: TextBox, label: 'Gateway Address' },
+            ip: { is: 'TextBox', label: 'IP Address (CIDR)' },
+            gw: { is: 'TextBox', label: 'Gateway Address' },
           },
         },
       }}},
+      Subform: { is: 'NicerForm', props: { heading: 'Subform', fields: {
+        Text: { is: 'TextBox', label: 'Text' },
+        Subform2: { is: 'NicerForm', props: { heading: 'Subform2', fields: {
+          Text: { is: 'TextBox', label: 'Text' },
+        } } },
+      } } },
     }" v-model="vm"/>
     {{ vm }}
     <button @click="() => { vm.Multiple = [1]; }">Click me</button>