ANN: reform - a type-safe form generation and validation library in the spirit of formlets and digestive-functors < 0.2

I am pleased to annouce the release of 'reform'. A full tutorial is available here: http://www.happstack.com/docs/crashcourse/Reform.html Reform is an HTML form generation and validation library. It follows in the footsteps of formlets and digestive-functors <= 0.2. In fact, much of the code in reform comes from the digestive-functors-0.2 code base. Reform is designed to be usuable with a wide variety of Haskell web servers and templating libraries. You can find the following packages on hackage: * reform - the core library * reform-happstack - support for using reform with the Happstack server * reform-blaze - support for creating forms for blaze-html * reform-hsp - support for creating forms for HSP (another xml/html template library) The source code is available via darcs: darcs get http://patch-tag.com/r/stepcut/reform The darcs repo also includes proof-of-concept support for 'Heist'. Reform will feel very familiar to formlets and digestive-functors <= 0.2 users. The primary motivation behind this library is to provide a supported alternative to digestive-functors 0.2 for users that prefer 0.2 over 0.3. The key new feature in reform is the ability to separate the validation code from the view generation code. This allows library authors to provide validators (known as Proofs) which the users can use when constructing their forms. The proof names appear in the type-signatures. This allows the library author to ensure that the value returned by a user created form is not merely the correct type, but has also passed validation. The reform-happstack package also provides simple and transparent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) protection, using the double-submit method. This method has some weaknesses. For example, I believe it can be circumvented if your site is vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. If you have suggestions on how to improve the CSRF protection -- please let us know! I hope to do a full comparison of reform vs digestive-functors 0.3 vs yesod forms in a few weeks. - jeremy

Congrats on the release!
I would like to help out with the full comparison since I have some
knowledge and experience on the subject. Because of the different
approach, I think there's definitely room for two libraries.
Cheers,
Jasper
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 2:23 AM, Felipe Almeida Lessa
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Jeremy Shaw
wrote: I hope to do a full comparison of reform vs digestive-functors 0.3 vs yesod forms in a few weeks.
That would be awesome! Just sayin' =).
Cheers,
-- Felipe.
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Sounds great!
I have some vague ideas about what the comparison might reveal -- but
I expect to learn quite a bit in the process, and use that to improve
reform. There is definitely room for more than one form validation
library. They all have shortcomings, and I am hoping something even
better will come along some day :)
- jeremy
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 4:31 AM, Jasper Van der Jeugt
Congrats on the release!
I would like to help out with the full comparison since I have some knowledge and experience on the subject. Because of the different approach, I think there's definitely room for two libraries.
Cheers, Jasper
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 2:23 AM, Felipe Almeida Lessa
wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Jeremy Shaw
wrote: I hope to do a full comparison of reform vs digestive-functors 0.3 vs yesod forms in a few weeks.
That would be awesome! Just sayin' =).
Cheers,
-- Felipe.
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Felipe Almeida Lessa
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Jasper Van der Jeugt
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Jeremy Shaw