Form Input

Red Tape forms take a map of data as input. Red Tape is designed with web-based forms in mind, but since it operates on plain old maps you could certainly use it for other things as well.

Keys

The input map should contain keys that match the field definitions of a form. For example:

(defform change-password-form {}
  :old-password [...]
  :new-password-1 [...]
  :new-password-2 [...])

(change-password-form {:old-password "foo"
                       :new-password-1 "bar"
                       :new-password-2 "bar"})
; =>
{... result map ...}

For convenience, the keys in the input map can be strings and everything will still work:

(change-password-form {"old-password" "foo"
                       "new-password-1" "bar"
                       "new-password-2" "bar"})
; =>
{... result map ...}

If the input map contains both a string and a keyword key for a field, the results are undefined. Don't do that.

Values

All values in the input map should be strings.

Using other types of data may appear to work, but Red Tape's behavior may change in the future so you really should just stick to string input and use cleaners to convert them to whatever kind of data you want.

Move on to the cleaners guide to learn more about this.