HTML::FormHandler fill in default value

keenlearner has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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;
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Re: HTML::FormHandler fill in default value by kcott (Archbishop) on Feb 07, 2012 at 15:02 UTC
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 => ...` [download] -- Ken	[reply] [d/l]
Re: HTML::FormHandler fill in default value by Anonymous Monk on Feb 07, 2012 at 14:55 UTC
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	[reply]
Re: HTML::FormHandler fill in default value by keenlearner (Acolyte) on Feb 07, 2012 at 15:18 UTC
Wow...I have read that document but didn't understand that that default is actually pointing to the value. Thanks it works.	[reply]
Re^2: HTML::FormHandler fill in default value by locked_user sundialsvc4 (Abbot) on Feb 07, 2012 at 21:32 UTC
In quite a few situations, the “default value” is something that produces a value.