I'm designing a form in React that has a main form builder (Create Job.js) and some form pages (AdditionalInfo.js) and (Confirmation.js). this form had a tag input that allows you to choose tags from a drop-down list provided by an API. the selected items need to be shown later in the confirmation page.
This is my main form builder that has props and functions:(CreateJob.js)
state = {
step:1,
Title:'',
requirements:'',
Location:'',
Benefits:'',
Company:'',
InternalCode:'',
Details:'',
Tags:[],
Address:'',
Department:'',
Salary:''
}
handleDropDown = input => value => {
this.setState({ [input]: value });
}
render () {
const { step } = this.state
const {Title,Benefits,Company,InternalCode,Detailss,Tags,Address,Department,Salary,requirements,Location } = this.state;
const values ={Title,Benefits,Company,InternalCode,Detailss,Tags,Address,Department,Salary,requirements,Location}
return (
<div>
....
<AdditionalInfo
nextStep={this.nextStep}
prevStep={this.prevStep}
handleChange={this.handleChange}
handleChangeRaw={this.handleChangeRaw}
handleDropDown={this.handleDropDown}
values={values}
/>
<Confirmation
nextStep={this.nextStep}
prevStep={this.prevStep}
values={values}
/>
....
and this is my form page which includes the list from API and the drop down using react-select(AdditionalInfo.js):
export class AdditionalInfo extends Component {
state = {
locations:[],
departments: [],
tagsList:[],
}
componentDidMount() {
axios.get('/api/jobs/list-tags',{headers:headers}).then(respo =>{
console.log(respo.data)
this.setState({
tagsList:respo.data.map(Tags=>({label: Tags.name, value: Tags.id}))
})
console.log(this.state.tagsList)
})
}
render() {
const {values, handleDropDown} = this.props
<Select placeholder='Select from pre-created Tags 'onChange={handleDropDown('Tags')} defaultValue={values.Tags} required isMulti options={this.state.tagsList}/>
...
this is the list of tags received from the API:
Object { label: "MongoDB", value: 1 }
Object { label: "JavaScript", value: 2 }
Object { label: "HTML", value: 3 }
Object { label: "CSS", value: 4 }
...
And this is my Confirmation page which needs to show the info received from previous pages (Confirmation.js)
.....
render () {
const {
values: {
Title, Benefits,
Company, InternalCode, Detailss, Department,Tags, Salary,requirements,Location
}} = this.props
<Row> Tags: {Tags.join(", ")}</Row>
....
the problem is that, instead of showing tags on the page like putting the labels next to each other :JavaScript, MongoDB, ... it shows this : [object Object], [object Object], [object Object], [object Object]. sorry for the long code but Im a beginner in JavaScript and I dont know how to handle it so it shows the labels. How can I achieve this?
You are doing great, and you have done right, just simple tweak you need.
If React
show anything like [Object Object]
it means you are trying to render Javascript Object
not a single value because you have got Tags
from props
which is an Array of objects
.
Use it like this, it will work like butter -
import React from 'react';
const Confirmation = () => {
const tags = [ // which you got from props
{ label: "MongoDB", value: 1 },
{ label: "JavaScript", value: 2 },
{ label: "HTML", value: 3 },
{ label: "CSS", value: 4 }
];
return (
<div>
{tags.map(tag => tag.label).join(', ')} {/* map over tags to get the array of tag labels */}
</div>
);
}
export default Confirmation;