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Rust Web Development with Rocket

You're reading from   Rust Web Development with Rocket A practical guide to starting your journey in Rust web development using the Rocket framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800561304
Length 420 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Karuna Murti Karuna Murti
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: An Introduction to the Rust Programming Language and the Rocket Web Framework
2. Chapter 1: Introducing the Rust Language FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Building Our First Rocket Web Application 4. Chapter 3: Rocket Requests and Responses 5. Chapter 4: Building, Igniting, and Launching Rocket 6. Chapter 5: Designing a User-Generated Application 7. Part 2: An In-Depth Look at Rocket Web Application Development
8. Chapter 6: Implementing User CRUD 9. Chapter 7: Handling Errors in Rust and Rocket 10. Chapter 8: Serving Static Assets and Templates 11. Chapter 9: Displaying Users' Post 12. Chapter 10: Uploading and Processing Posts 13. Chapter 11: Securing and Adding an API and JSON 14. Part 3: Finishing the Rust Web Application Development
15. Chapter 12: Testing Your Application 16. Chapter 13: Launching a Rocket Application 17. Chapter 14: Building a Full Stack Application 18. Chapter 15: Improving the Rocket Application 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Working with forms

If we look at the structure of the form for new_user and edit_user, we can see that both forms are almost the same, with just a few differences. For example, the forms' action endpoints are different, as there are two extra fields for edit_user: _METHOD and old_password. To simplify, we can make one template to be used by both functions. Let's look at the steps:

  1. Create a template called src/views/users/form.html.tera, and insert the following lines:
    {% extends "template" %}
    {% block body %}
      <form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="{{ form_url }}" 
      autocomplete="off" method="POST">
        <fieldset>
        </fieldset>
      </form>
    {% endblock %}
  2. Next, let's add the title to the form by adding a legend tag. Put this inside the fieldset tag:
    <legend>{{ legend }}</legend>
  3. Under the legend tag,...
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