gecko-dev/toolkit/modules/FormLikeFactory.jsm

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"use strict";

var EXPORTED_SYMBOLS = ["FormLikeFactory"];

const { XPCOMUtils } = ChromeUtils.import(
  "resource://gre/modules/XPCOMUtils.jsm"
);

/**
 * A factory to generate FormLike objects that represent a set of related fields
 * which aren't necessarily marked up with a <form> element. FormLike's emulate
 * the properties of an HTMLFormElement which are relevant to form tasks.
 */
let FormLikeFactory = {
  _propsFromForm: ["action", "autocomplete", "ownerDocument"],

  /**
   * Create a FormLike object from a <form>.
   *
   * @param {HTMLFormElement} aForm
   * @return {FormLike}
   * @throws Error if aForm isn't an HTMLFormElement
   */
  createFromForm(aForm) {
    if (ChromeUtils.getClassName(aForm) !== "HTMLFormElement") {
      throw new Error("createFromForm: aForm must be a HTMLFormElement");
    }

    let formLike = {
      elements: [...aForm.elements],
      rootElement: aForm,
    };

    for (let prop of this._propsFromForm) {
      formLike[prop] = aForm[prop];
    }

    this._addToJSONProperty(formLike);

    return formLike;
  },

  /**
   * Create a FormLike object from an <input>/<select> in a document.
   *
   * If the field is in a <form>, construct the FormLike from the form.
   * Otherwise, create a FormLike with a rootElement (wrapper) according to
   * heuristics. Currently all <input>/<select> not in a <form> are one FormLike
   * but this shouldn't be relied upon as the heuristics may change to detect
   * multiple "forms" (e.g. registration and login) on one page with a <form>.
   *
   * Note that two FormLikes created from the same field won't return the same FormLike object.
   * Use the `rootElement` property on the FormLike as a key instead.
   *
   * @param {HTMLInputElement|HTMLSelectElement} aField - an <input> or <select> field in a document
   * @return {FormLike}
   * @throws Error if aField isn't a password or username field in a document
   */
  createFromField(aField) {
    if (
      (ChromeUtils.getClassName(aField) !== "HTMLInputElement" &&
        ChromeUtils.getClassName(aField) !== "HTMLSelectElement") ||
      !aField.ownerDocument
    ) {
      throw new Error("createFromField requires a field in a document");
    }

    let rootElement = this.findRootForField(aField);
    if (ChromeUtils.getClassName(rootElement) === "HTMLFormElement") {
      return this.createFromForm(rootElement);
    }

    let doc = aField.ownerDocument;

    let formLike = {
      action: doc.baseURI,
      autocomplete: "on",
      ownerDocument: doc,
      rootElement,
    };

    // FormLikes can be created when fields are inserted into the DOM. When
    // many, many fields are inserted one after the other, we create many
    // FormLikes, and computing the elements list becomes more and more
    // expensive. Making the elements list lazy means that it'll only
    // be computed when it's eventually needed (if ever).
    XPCOMUtils.defineLazyGetter(formLike, "elements", function() {
      let elements = [];
      for (let el of this.rootElement.querySelectorAll("input, select")) {
        // Exclude elements inside the rootElement that are already in a <form> as
        // they will be handled by their own FormLike.
        if (!el.form) {
          elements.push(el);
        }
      }

      return elements;
    });

    this._addToJSONProperty(formLike);
    return formLike;
  },

  /**
   * Determine the Element that encapsulates the related fields. For example, if
   * a page contains a login form and a checkout form which are "submitted"
   * separately, and the username field is passed in, ideally this would return
   * an ancestor Element of the username and password fields which doesn't
   * include any of the checkout fields.
   *
   * @param {HTMLInputElement|HTMLSelectElement} aField - a field in a document
   * @return {HTMLElement} - the root element surrounding related fields
   */
  findRootForField(aField) {
    if (aField.form) {
      return aField.form;
    }

    return aField.ownerDocument.documentElement;
  },

  /**
   * Add a `toJSON` property to a FormLike so logging which ends up going
   * through dump doesn't include usless garbage from DOM objects.
   */
  _addToJSONProperty(aFormLike) {
    function prettyElementOutput(aElement) {
      let idText = aElement.id ? "#" + aElement.id : "";
      let classText = "";
      for (let className of aElement.classList) {
        classText += "." + className;
      }
      return `<${aElement.nodeName + idText + classText}>`;
    }

    Object.defineProperty(aFormLike, "toJSON", {
      value: () => {
        let cleansed = {};
        for (let key of Object.keys(aFormLike)) {
          let value = aFormLike[key];
          let cleansedValue = value;

          switch (key) {
            case "elements": {
              cleansedValue = [];
              for (let element of value) {
                cleansedValue.push(prettyElementOutput(element));
              }
              break;
            }

            case "ownerDocument": {
              cleansedValue = {
                location: {
                  href: value.location.href,
                },
              };
              break;
            }

            case "rootElement": {
              cleansedValue = prettyElementOutput(value);
              break;
            }
          }

          cleansed[key] = cleansedValue;
        }
        return cleansed;
      },
    });
  },
};