Custom Widget#

In this chapter we are going to build a custom widget. The widget we are going to build is a rating widget with one to five stars.

Setup The Content Type#

We will add a rating field to the Page content type. Go to the Plone Control Panel at http://localhost:8080/Plone/dexterity-types/Document. Add a field called Rating with short name rating and type Integer.

Next we will create a file components/RatingWidget/RatingWidget.jsx. We will start with a copy of the components/manage/Widgets/TextWidget.jsx file from Volto, and rename the class to RatingWidget.

/**
 * RatingWidget component.
 * @module components/RatingWidget/RatingWidget
 */

import React from 'react';
import PropTypes from 'prop-types';
import { Form, Grid, Icon, Input, Label } from 'semantic-ui-react';
import { map } from 'lodash';
import { defineMessages, injectIntl, intlShape } from 'react-intl';

const messages = defineMessages({
  default: {
    id: 'Default',
    defaultMessage: 'Default',
  },
  idTitle: {
    id: 'Short Name',
    defaultMessage: 'Short Name',
  },
  idDescription: {
    id: 'Used for programmatic access to the fieldset.',
    defaultMessage: 'Used for programmatic access to the fieldset.',
  },
  title: {
    id: 'Title',
    defaultMessage: 'Title',
  },
  description: {
    id: 'Description',
    defaultMessage: 'Description',
  },
  required: {
    id: 'Required',
    defaultMessage: 'Required',
  },
});

/**
 * RatingWidget component class.
 * @function RatingWidget
 * @returns {string} Markup of the component.
 */
const RatingWidget = ({
  id,
  title,
  required,
  description,
  error,
  value,
  onChange,
  onEdit,
  onDelete,
  intl,
}) => {
  const schema = {
    fieldsets: [
      {
        id: 'default',
        title: intl.formatMessage(messages.default),
        fields: ['title', 'id', 'description', 'required'],
      },
    ],
    properties: {
      id: {
        type: 'string',
        title: intl.formatMessage(messages.idTitle),
        description: intl.formatMessage(messages.idDescription),
      },
      title: {
        type: 'string',
        title: intl.formatMessage(messages.title),
      },
      description: {
        type: 'string',
        widget: 'textarea',
        title: intl.formatMessage(messages.description),
      },
      required: {
        type: 'boolean',
        title: intl.formatMessage(messages.required),
      },
    },
    required: ['id', 'title'],
  };

  return (
    <Form.Field
      inline
      required={required}
      error={error.length > 0}
      className={description ? 'help' : ''}
    >
      <Grid>
        <Grid.Row stretched>
          <Grid.Column width="4">
            <div className="wrapper">
              <label htmlFor={`field-${id}`}>
                {onEdit && (
                  <i
                    aria-hidden="true"
                    className="grey bars icon drag handle"
                  />
                )}
                {title}
              </label>
            </div>
          </Grid.Column>
          <Grid.Column width="8">
            {onEdit && (
              <div className="toolbar">
                <a className="item" onClick={() => onEdit(id, schema)}>
                  <Icon name="write square" size="large" color="blue" />
                </a>
                <a className="item" onClick={() => onDelete(id)}>
                  <Icon name="close" size="large" color="red" />
                </a>
              </div>
            )}
            <Input
              id={`field-${id}`}
              name={id}
              value={value || ''}
              disabled={onEdit !== null}
              onChange={({ target }) =>
                onChange(id, target.value === '' ? undefined : target.value)
              }
            />
            {map(error, message => (
              <Label key={message} basic color="red" pointing>
                {message}
              </Label>
            ))}
          </Grid.Column>
        </Grid.Row>
        {description && (
          <Grid.Row stretched>
            <Grid.Column stretched width="12">
              <p className="help">{description}</p>
            </Grid.Column>
          </Grid.Row>
        )}
      </Grid>
    </Form.Field>
  );
};

/**
 * Property types.
 * @property {Object} propTypes Property types.
 * @static
 */
RatingWidget.propTypes = {
  id: PropTypes.string.isRequired,
  title: PropTypes.string.isRequired,
  description: PropTypes.string,
  required: PropTypes.bool,
  error: PropTypes.arrayOf(PropTypes.string),
  value: PropTypes.string,
  onChange: PropTypes.func,
  onEdit: PropTypes.func,
  onDelete: PropTypes.func,
  intl: intlShape.isRequired,
};

/**
 * Default properties.
 * @property {Object} defaultProps Default properties.
 * @static
 */
RatingWidget.defaultProps = {
  description: null,
  required: false,
  error: [],
  value: null,
  onChange: null,
  onEdit: null,
  onDelete: null,
};

export default injectIntl(RatingWidget);

Next we will add RatingWidget to the components/index.js file so we can import the widget.

/**
 * Add your components here.
 * @module components
 * @example
 * import Footer from './Footer/Footer';
 *
 * export {
 *   Footer,
 * };
 */

import AlbumView from './AlbumView/AlbumView';
import FullView from './FullView/FullView';
import RatingWidget from './RatingWidget/RatingWidget';

export { AlbumView, FullView, RatingWidget };

Registering The Widget#

We can register a widget based on multiple checks for the widget set by the backend, the type of the field and so on. For this example we will be using the selection based on id. This way we will only change the widget of this field.

import { AlbumView, FullView, RatingWidget } from './components';

export const widgets = {
  ...defaultWidgets,
  id: {
    ...defaultWidgets.id,
    rating: RatingWidget,
  },
};

Exercise#

Finish the RatingWidget by converting the TextWidget. You can use the Rating component from semantic-ui.

Solution
/**
 * RatingWidget component.
 * @module components/RatingWidget/RatingWidget
 */

import React from 'react';
import PropTypes from 'prop-types';
import { Form, Grid, Icon, Label, Rating } from 'semantic-ui-react';
import { map } from 'lodash';
import { defineMessages, injectIntl, intlShape } from 'react-intl';

const messages = defineMessages({
  default: {
    id: 'Default',
    defaultMessage: 'Default',
  },
  idTitle: {
    id: 'Short Name',
    defaultMessage: 'Short Name',
  },
  idDescription: {
    id: 'Used for programmatic access to the fieldset.',
    defaultMessage: 'Used for programmatic access to the fieldset.',
  },
  title: {
    id: 'Title',
    defaultMessage: 'Title',
  },
  description: {
    id: 'Description',
    defaultMessage: 'Description',
  },
  required: {
    id: 'Required',
    defaultMessage: 'Required',
  },
});

/**
 * RatingWidget component class.
 * @function RatingWidget
 * @returns {string} Markup of the component.
 */
const RatingWidget = ({
  id,
  title,
  required,
  description,
  error,
  value,
  onChange,
  onEdit,
  onDelete,
  intl,
}) => {
  const schema = {
    fieldsets: [
      {
        id: 'default',
        title: intl.formatMessage(messages.default),
        fields: ['title', 'id', 'description', 'required'],
      },
    ],
    properties: {
      id: {
        type: 'string',
        title: intl.formatMessage(messages.idTitle),
        description: intl.formatMessage(messages.idDescription),
      },
      title: {
        type: 'string',
        title: intl.formatMessage(messages.title),
      },
      description: {
        type: 'string',
        widget: 'textarea',
        title: intl.formatMessage(messages.description),
      },
      required: {
        type: 'boolean',
        title: intl.formatMessage(messages.required),
      },
    },
    required: ['id', 'title'],
  };

  return (
    <Form.Field
      inline
      required={required}
      error={error.length > 0}
      className={description ? 'help' : ''}
    >
      <Grid>
        <Grid.Row stretched>
          <Grid.Column width="4">
            <div className="wrapper">
              <label htmlFor={`field-${id}`}>
                {onEdit && (
                  <i
                    aria-hidden="true"
                    className="grey bars icon drag handle"
                  />
                )}
                {title}
              </label>
            </div>
          </Grid.Column>
          <Grid.Column width="8">
            {onEdit && (
              <div className="toolbar">
                <a className="item" onClick={() => onEdit(id, schema)}>
                  <Icon name="write square" size="large" color="blue" />
                </a>
                <a className="item" onClick={() => onDelete(id)}>
                  <Icon name="close" size="large" color="red" />
                </a>
              </div>
            )}
            <Rating
              id={`field-${id}`}
              name={id}
              rating={value || 0}
              disabled={onEdit !== null}
              maxRating={5}
              onRate={(e, { rating }) => onChange(id, rating)}
            />
            {map(error, message => (
              <Label key={message} basic color="red" pointing>
                {message}
              </Label>
            ))}
          </Grid.Column>
        </Grid.Row>
        {description && (
          <Grid.Row stretched>
            <Grid.Column stretched width="12">
              <p className="help">{description}</p>
            </Grid.Column>
          </Grid.Row>
        )}
      </Grid>
    </Form.Field>
  );
};

/**
 * Property types.
 * @property {Object} propTypes Property types.
 * @static
 */
RatingWidget.propTypes = {
  id: PropTypes.string.isRequired,
  title: PropTypes.string.isRequired,
  description: PropTypes.string,
  required: PropTypes.bool,
  error: PropTypes.arrayOf(PropTypes.string),
  value: PropTypes.number,
  onChange: PropTypes.func,
  onEdit: PropTypes.func,
  onDelete: PropTypes.func,
  intl: intlShape.isRequired,
};

/**
 * Default properties.
 * @property {Object} defaultProps Default properties.
 * @static
 */
RatingWidget.defaultProps = {
  description: null,
  required: false,
  error: [],
  value: 0,
  onChange: null,
  onEdit: null,
  onDelete: null,
};

export default injectIntl(RatingWidget);