Standard pattern to redirect a submit form after checking the insert was successful, on Meteor with AutoForm & Iron Router?

Question

I'm using Meteor with AutoForm & Iron Router.

I have an autoform for inserting a record, and I want to redirect to another page to view the record after a successful insert. What's the generally accepted way to do this?

If I use the standard autoform insert like:

{{#autoForm collection="Articles" id="articleSubmit" type="insert"}} 

I can't see how I can redirect?

If I use the 'method' type like this:

{{#autoForm collection="Articles" id="articleSubmit" type="method"}} 

then I have to write an insert method which is not particularly DRY.

Answer 1

A form is a form, if you use the type="method" thats means you are using a Meteor.method for this, and the form will handle for you, the Meteor.call

Now if you want to do some Router.go() , you will need to write some JS code, you can use the hooks, wich come with the autoform package, like this for example

Articles.hooks({
  contactForm: {
    onSubmit: function (insertDoc, updateDoc, currentDoc) {
      if (someHandler(insertDoc)) {
        this.done();
        Articles.clean(doc); / you can do more logic here, cleaning the form.
        Router.go('thePath');
      } else {
        this.done(new Error("Submission failed"));
      }
      return false;
    }
  }
});

So you don't need a common 'submit #articleSubmit' use the auto forms API better.