Rails ujs and remote form, How to stop form submission the programmatically submit form

Question

I am using rails form_with as a remote form. Before submission I want to display a custom confirm box with a dynamic message. After the box is indeed confirmed I want to eventually submit the form. I came up with 'ajax:beforeSend' event handler :

const form = document.getElementById('assign_sessions_to_employees')
form.addEventListener(
  'ajax:beforeSend',
  (event) => {
    event.preventDefault();
    swal.fire({
      title: 'Are you sure ?',
      text: `You are about to spend ${expectedExpenditure()} credits.`,
      showCancelButton: true,
    }).then((result) => {
      if (result.isConfirmed) {
        console.log('submitting')
        Rails.fire(form, 'submit');
      }
    })
  }
)

This works fine, however when I run Rails.fire(form, 'submit');, when I eventually want to submit the form this retriggers 'ajax:beforeSend' and I get stuck in the loop.

What would be the correct way to achieve this behavior with form_with and rails ujs ?

Answer 1

If you use a function declaration (aka a named function) you can remove the event handler with EventTarget.removeEventListener():

function handleConfirmation(event){
  let form = event.target;
  event.preventDefault();
  swal.fire({
     title: 'Are you sure ?',
     text: `You are about to spend ${expectedExpenditure()} credits.`,
     showCancelButton: true,
  }).then((result) => {
     if (result.isConfirmed) {
       console.log('submitting');
       form.removeEventListener('ajax:beforeSend', handleConfirmation);
       Rails.fire(form, 'submit');
     }
    })
  }
}
const form = document.getElementById('assign_sessions_to_employees')
form.addEventListener('ajax:beforeSend', handleConfirmation);

Another alternative is to just set a data attribute in your event handler:

const form = document.getElementById('assign_sessions_to_employees')
form.addEventListener(
  'ajax:beforeSend',
  (event) => {
    if (event.target.dataset.confirmed) { return };
    event.preventDefault();
    swal.fire({
      title: 'Are you sure ?',
      text: `You are about to spend ${expectedExpenditure()} credits.`,
      showCancelButton: true,
    }).then((result) => {
      if (result.isConfirmed) {
        console.log('submitting');
        form.dataset.confirmed = true;
        Rails.fire(form, 'submit');
      }
    })
  }
)