feedback.R

# Provide exercise feedback
feedback <- function(message, correct, type, location) {
  feedback_validated(list(
    message = message,
    correct = correct,
    type = type,
    location = location
  ))
}

# return feedback if it's valid (with defaults), otherwise throw an error
feedback_validated <- function(feedback) {
  if (!length(feedback)) {
    return(feedback)
  }
  if (!(is.list(feedback) && all(c("message", "correct") %in% names(feedback)))) {
    stop("Feedback must be a list with 'message' and 'correct' fields", call. = FALSE)
  }
  if (!(is.character(feedback$message) || inherits(feedback$message, c("shiny.tag", "shiny.tag.list")))) {
    stop("The 'message' field of feedback must be a character vector or an htmltools tag or tagList", call. = FALSE)
  }
  if (!is.logical(feedback$correct)) {
    stop("The 'correct' field of feedback must be a logical (i.e., boolean) value", call. = FALSE)
  }
  # Fill in type/location defaults and check their value
  feedback$type <- feedback$type[1] %||% "auto"
  feedback$location <- feedback$location[1] %||% "append"
  feedback_types <- c("auto", "success", "info", "warning", "error", "custom")
  if (!feedback$type %in% feedback_types) {
    stop("Feedback 'type' field must be one of these values: ",
         paste(feedback_types, collapse = ", "), call. = FALSE)
  }
  feedback_locations <- c("append", "prepend", "replace")
  if (!feedback$location %in% feedback_locations) {
    stop("Feedback 'location' field must be one of these values: ",
         paste(feedback_locations, collapse = ", "), call. = FALSE)
  }
  if (feedback$type %in% "auto") {
    feedback$type <- if (feedback$correct) "success" else "error"
  }
  feedback
}

feedback_as_html <- function(feedback) {
  if (!length(feedback)) {
    return(feedback)
  }
  feedback <- feedback_validated(feedback)
  if (feedback$type %in% "custom") {
    return(div(feedback$message))
  }
  if (feedback$type %in% "error") {
    feedback$type <- "danger"
  }
  if (feedback$type %in% c("success", "info", "warning", "danger")) {
    return(div(
      role = "alert",
      class = paste0("alert alert-", feedback$type),
      feedback$message
    ))
  }
  stop("Invalid message type specified.", call. = FALSE)
}

# helper function to create tags for error message
error_message_html <- function(message, style = "code") {
  switch(
    style,
    alert = div(class = "alert alert-danger", role = "alert", message),
    code = ,
    pre(
      code(class = "text-danger", message, .noWS = c("before", "after")),
      .noWS = c("before", "after")
    )
  )
}