This spawner makes it possible to add an options form to almost any spawner using only JupyterHub configuration, no subclassing required. The options form that is rendered uses HTML5 form validation and applies form values as spawner attributes.

To install the OptionsFormSpawner, clone the repo and install via pip:

pip3 install .

The OptionsFormSpawner is a subclass of wrapspawner that adds an additional spawner attribute called form_fields, which is a list of option form field instances that you want the spawner to render.

This is a basic configuration that allow user-definition of the following spawner attributes:

• LocalProcessSpawner.text_attribute: A Unicode trait
• LocalProcessSpawner.select_attribute: A Float trait

from optionsspawner.forms import (
    TextInputField,
    SelectField,
)

c.JupyterHub.spawner_class = 'optionsspawner.OptionsFormSpawner'
c.OptionsFormSpawner.child_class = 'jupyterhub.spawner.LocalProcessSpawner'
c.OptionsFormSpawner.child_config = {}

test_input = TextInputField('text_attribute',
    label="A required unicode value",
    attr_value='Default value',
    attr_required=True
)

test_select = SelectField('select_attribute',
    label='Select one',
    attr_required=True,
    choices=[(1.0, 'Option 1'), (2.0, 'Option 2')],
    default=2.0
)

c.OptionsFormSpawner.form_fields = [
    test_input,
    test_select,
]

The optionsspawner module provides the below form fields for your configuration. Each field allows for direct access to its associated HTML5 API via keyword arguments to the field constructor. these keyword arguments are the name of the HTML input or select attribute, prefixed by attr_.

Note: This API is meant to be as permissive as possible, particularly in regards to direct access to the underlying HTML5 form API. The field instances will not check that each attribute, nor combinations of attributes are valid.

Form field for text inputs associated with a Unicode trait. This field will support any text-based input field and attributes.

email_input = TextInputField('user_email',
    label="A required email field",
    attr_type='email',
    attr_placeholder='Please enter your email address',
    attr_required=True
)

Form field for numerical inputs associated with either Integer or Float traits. This field will support any numerical input field and attributes.

# This will be applied to the spawner as a Float trait
scaling_factor_input = NumericalInputField('scaling_factor',
    label="Scaling Factor",
    attr_min=0,
    attr_max=2,
    attr_step=0.1
)

Form field for checkbox inputs. If attr_value is provided, then a trait matching the type of that value will be returned, either a Bool or Unicode. Otherwise, a Bool trait will be returned. Unlike the other field types, attr_value corresponds to the value of the field if it is checked, and does not influence the actual state of the checkbox. To initialize a checked checkbox, set attr_checked=True.

terms_conditions_accept_input = CheckboxInputField('accepted_toc',
    label="I agree to the Terms and Conditions",
    attr_required=True
)

exclusive_mode_input = CheckboxInputField('exclusive_mode',
    label="Spawn in exclusive mode.",
    attr_value='exclusive',
    attr_checked=True
)

Form field for select inputs. A trait matching the type of the choices will be returned. Takes two special keyword arguments in addition to HTML attributes:

• choices: tuple of (value, label) pairs that the rendered select options will represent.
• default: the value of the choice selected by default. If no default defined, the first choice will be selected.

Note: attr_value should not be specified on this field, and will have no effect.

qos_select = SelectField('req_qos',
    label='Select a QoS',
    attr_required=True,
    choices=[('debug', 'Debug'), ('normal', 'Normal')],
    default='normal'
)

Clone the repo and install editable:

pip3 install -e .

To run tests, navigate to the repository root and run:

python -m unittest discover tests/