UI5 Custom Control for QR Codes

A few days ago, Gregor Wolf, one of my fellow SAP Mentors was looking for a UI5 control that would display a QR codes:

When I first started experimenting with custom controls, I have been experimenting with a couple of Javascript libraries, including the great QR library by Kazuhiko Arase. I believe at that time, I started experimenting with this library because it was possible to re-render the QR codes without rendering the entire DOM element, a feature that UI5 can leverage in its custom controls.

As I still had this custom control lying around, I decided to polish it up and release it under an MIT license on Github:
https://github.com/jpenninkhof/openui5-qrcode/

Here’s a screenshot of the control in action:

Installation is quite similar to any other custom control:

1. Add the control directory to the application directory (webapp) of your project (don’t forget the 3rdparty directory)
2. Register a module path for the control in the init method of your Component.js file:

   // Register custom controls
   var modulePath = jQuery.sap.getModulePath(this.getManifestObject().getComponentName());
   jQuery.sap.registerModulePath("com.penninkhof.controls", modulePath + "/control");

3. Define the namespace in the top of your view: xmlns:p=”com.penninkhof.controls”, e.g.:

   
   <mvc:View
       controllerName="com.penninkhof.qrcode.controller.Main"
       xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
       xmlns:mvc="sap.ui.core.mvc"
       xmlns:p="com.penninkhof.controls"
       xmlns="sap.m">
   

4. And just add the line below  to your view.

   <p:QRCode code="Awesome code" />

   Of course you could also bind the code to a model:

   <p:QRCode code="{/code}" />

To play around with the control, check out this demo-app on:

https://jpenninkhof.github.io/openui5-qrcode/

Enjoy! And please do feel free to fork and contribute on Github!