defmodule Drab do require Logger @moduledoc """ Drab allows to query and manipulate the browser DOM objects directly from the Phoenix server. Drab works with Phoenix Framework. To enable it on the specific page you must find its controller and enable Drab by `use Drab.Controller` there: defmodule DrabExample.PageController do use Example.Web, :controller use Drab.Controller def index(conn, _params) do render conn, "index.html" end end Notice that it will enable Drab on all the pages generated by `DrabExample.PageController`. All Drab functions (callbacks and event handlers) should be placed in a module called 'commander'. It is very similar to controller, but it does not render any pages - it works with the live page instead. Each controller with enabled Drab should have the corresponding commander. defmodule DrabExample.PageCommander do use Drab.Commander, onload: :page_loaded # Drab Callbacks def page_loaded(socket) do socket |> update(:html, set: "Welcome to Phoenix+Drab!", on: "div.jumbotron h2") socket |> update(:html, set: "Please visit Drab page for more examples and description", on: "div.jumbotron p.lead") end # Drab Events def button_clicked(socket, dom_sender) do socket |> update(:text, set: "alread clicked", on: this(dom_sender)) end end Drab treats browser page as a database, allows you to read and change the data there. Please refer to `Drab.Query` documentation to find out how `Drab.Query.select/2` or `Drab.Query.update/2` works. Events are defined directly in the HTML by adding `drab-event` and `drab-handler` properties: Clicking such button launches `DrabExample.PageCommander.button_clicked/2` on the Phoenix server. There are few shortcuts for the most popular events: `click`, `keyup`, `keydown`, `change`. For this event an attribute `drab-EVENT_NAME` must be set. The following like is an equivalent for the previous one: """ use GenServer @doc false def start_link(socket) do GenServer.start_link(__MODULE__, socket) end @doc false def init(socket) do {:ok, socket} end @doc false def handle_cast({:onload, socket}, _) do # socket is coming from the first request from the client cmdr = commander(socket) onload = drab_config(cmdr).onload if onload do # only if onload exists apply(cmdr, onload, [socket]) end {:noreply, socket} end @doc false def handle_cast({_, socket, %{"event_handler_function" => evt_fun} = payload}, _) do do_handle_cast(socket, evt_fun, payload) end defp do_handle_cast(socket, evt_fun, payload) do # TODO: rethink the subprocess strategies - now it is just spawn_link spawn_link fn -> dom_sender = Map.delete(payload, "event_handler_function") apply( commander(socket), String.to_atom(evt_fun), [socket, dom_sender] ) # re-enable the button if needed if Drab.config.disable_controls_while_processing do socket |> Drab.Query.update(prop: "disabled", set: false, on: Drab.Query.this(dom_sender)) end end {:noreply, socket} end @doc false def push(socket, pid, message, options \\ []) do do_push_or_broadcast(socket, pid, message, options, &Phoenix.Channel.push/3) end @doc false def broadcast(socket, pid, message, options \\ []) do do_push_or_broadcast(socket, pid, message, options, &Phoenix.Channel.broadcast/3) end defp do_push_or_broadcast(socket, pid, message, options, function) do m = options |> Enum.into(%{}) |> Map.merge(%{sender: tokenize(socket, pid)}) function.(socket, message, m) end @doc false def tokenize(socket, pid) do myself = :erlang.term_to_binary(pid) Phoenix.Token.sign(socket, "sender", myself) end # returns the commander name for the given controller (assigned in token) defp commander(socket) do # Logger.debug "**** ASSIGNS: #{inspect(socket.assigns)}" controller = socket.assigns.controller controller.__drab__()[:commander] end # if module is commander or controller with drab enabled, it has __drab__/0 function with Drab configuration defp drab_config(module) do module.__drab__() end @doc """ Returns map of Drab configuration options. All the config values may be override in `config.exs`, for example: config :drab, disable_controls_while_processing: false Configuration options: * `disable_controls_while_processing` (default: `true`) - after sending request to the server, sender will be disabled until get the answer; warning: this behaviour is not broadcasted, so only the control in the current browers will be disabled * `events_to_disable_while_processing` (default: `["click"]`) - list of events which will be disabled when waiting for server response * `disable_controls_when_disconnected` (default: `true`) - disables control when there is no connectivity between the browser and the server * `socket` (default: `"/drab/socket"`) - path to Drab socket """ def config() do %{ disable_controls_while_processing: Application.get_env(:drab, :disable_controls_while_processing, true), events_to_disable_while_processing: Application.get_env(:drab, :events_to_disable_while_processing, ["click"]), disable_controls_when_disconnected: Application.get_env(:drab, :disable_controls_when_disconnected, true), socket: Application.get_env(:drab, :socket, "/drab/socket") } end end