[html-formfu] password element: empty after submission

[Jens Schwarz]

Hi,

I am Catalyst/Perl/FormFu/TemplateToolkit-Newbie and have a problem *douh* ;)
I want to create a form where the user can change its password (i.e. something like "password" and "password confirm") and store it sha1-hashed in my mySQL-DB. In order to accomplish this, I thought I could get the contents of the password field after the user submission, run a sha1-hash over it an finally store it to the DB. But that does not work because after the user submits the password field it seems to be emtpy. Is this a FormFu problem?

Here is the situation right now:

<catalyst root>/root/src/foobar.tt2:

[% form %]

<catalyst root>/root/forms/foobar.yml:

---
indicator: submit
elements:
  - type: Password
    name: mypass
    label: Enter password
    constraints:
      - type: Equal
        others: mypass_confirm
      - type: Required
  - type: Password
    name: mypass_confirm
    label: Please confirm password
    constraints:
      - type: Required
  - type: Submit
    name: submit
    value: Here we go

<catalyst root>/lib/MyApp/Controller/Root.pm:

sub foobar :Local :FormConfig('foobar.yml') {
  my ($self, $c) = @_;
  my $form = $c->stash->{form};
  $c->log->info($form->get_element({ name => "mypass" }));
  $c->stash->{template} = 'foobar.tt2';
}

<catalyst output after user has submitted form>:

[info] <div class="password label">
<label>Enter password</label>
<input name="mypass" type="password" value="" />
</div>

Please note the empty value attribute where I espected the user input!

If I now add a text field to my yml ...

<catalyst root>/root/forms/foobar.yml:

---
indicator: submit
elements:
  - type: Text
    name: mytext
    constraints:
      - type: Required
  - type: Password
    name: mypass
    label: Enter password
    constraints:
      - type: Equal
        others: mypass_confirm
      - type: Required
  - type: Password
    name: mypass_confirm
    label: Please confirm password
    constraints:
      - type: Required
  - type: Submit
    name: submit
    value: Here we go

... and grab its contents ...

<catalyst root>/lib/MyApp/Controller/Root.pm:

sub foobar :Local :FormConfig('foobar.yml') {
  my ($self, $c) = @_;
  my $form = $c->stash->{form};
  $c->log->info($form->get_element({ name => "mytext" }));
  $c->stash->{template} = 'foobar.tt2';
}

... the output is as expected:

<catalyst output after user has submitted form>:

[info] <div class="text">
<input name="mytext" type="text" value="foo" />
</div>

The related versions are:
- Catalyst 5.7015
- Catalyst::Controller::HTML::FormFu 0.03004
- HTML::FormFu 0.03005
- Perl 5.10

Any hints on how I can get my password hashed as intended?

TIA

Jens
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