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Email Input Tokenizer - AngularJS Directive

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AngularJS directive for valid email tokenizer

Introduction

While implementing Single Page Application through WebAPI and AngularJS, you come across number of times to use filters and directives in order to meet requirements specified by clients. The below code snippet tokenizes input and displays them in a separate block within a specific placeholder, however it checks the input is a valid email address first and then the input token is not repetitive within the same placeholder.

Using the Code

HTML
<body ng-app="tokenizer">
    <div ng-controller="tokenizerController">
        <tag-input taglist='email' placeholder="Emails"></tag-input>  
    </div>
</body>
JavaScript
var sample = angular.module('tokenizer', ['ngRoute']);

sample.controller('tokenizerController', function ($scope) {
       
   });

   sample.directive('tagInput', function () {
       return {
           restrict: 'E',
           scope: {
               inputTags: '=taglist',
               autocomplete: '=autocomplete'
           },
           link: function ($scope, element, attrs) {
               $scope.defaultWidth = 200;
               $scope.tagText = '';
               $scope.placeholder = attrs.placeholder;
               $scope.tagArray = function () {
                   if ($scope.inputTags === undefined) {
                       return [];
                   }
                   return $scope.inputTags.split(',').filter(function (tag) {
                       return tag !== "";
                   });
               };
               $scope.addTag = function () {
                   var EMAIL_REGEXP = /^[_a-z0-9]+(\.[_a-z0-9]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+
					(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,4})$/;
                   var tagArray;
                   if ($scope.tagText.length === 0) {
                       return;
                   }
                   if (!EMAIL_REGEXP.test($scope.tagText)) {
                       return $scope.tagText = "";
                   }
                   tagArray = $scope.tagArray();
                   if (!(tagArray.indexOf($scope.tagText) >= 0)) {
                       tagArray.push($scope.tagText);
                       $scope.inputTags = tagArray.join(',');
                   }
                   return $scope.tagText = "";
               };
               $scope.deleteTag = function (key) {
                   var tagArray;
                   tagArray = $scope.tagArray();
                   if (tagArray.length > 0 && $scope.tagText.length === 0 && key === undefined) {
                       tagArray.pop();
                   } else {
                       if (key !== undefined) {
                           tagArray.splice(key, 1);
                       }
                   }
                   return $scope.inputTags = tagArray.join(',');
               };
               $scope.$watch('tagText', function (newVal, oldVal) {
                   var tempEl;
                   if (!(newVal === oldVal && newVal === undefined)) {
                       tempEl = $("<span>" + newVal + "</span>").appendTo("body");
                       $scope.inputWidth = tempEl.width() + 5;
                       if ($scope.inputWidth < $scope.defaultWidth) {
                           $scope.inputWidth = $scope.defaultWidth;
                       }
                       return tempEl.remove();
                   }
               });
               element.bind("keydown", function (e) {
                   var key;
                   key = e.which;
                   if (key === 9 || key === 13) {
                       e.preventDefault();
                   }
                   if (key === 8) {
                       return $scope.$apply('deleteTag()');
                   }
               });
               return element.bind("keyup", function (e) {
                   var key;
                   key = e.which;
                   if (key === 9 || key === 13 || key === 188) {
                       e.preventDefault();
                       return $scope.$apply('addTag()');
                   }
               });
           },
           template: "<div class='tag-input-ctn'><div class='input-tag' 
		data-ng-repeat=\"tag in tagArray()\">{{tag}}<div class='delete-tag' 
		data-ng-click='deleteTag($index)'>&times;</div></div><input type='text' 
		data-ng-style='{width: inputWidth}' data-ng-model='tagText' 
		placeholder='{{placeholder}}'/></div>"
       };
   });

Points of Interest

For the complete source code, please see https://github.com/m-hassan-tariq/EmailInputTokenizerAngularJSDirective.

License

This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)


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