I was working on a fix for a strange issue where?H::FF::M::DBIC will attempt to create an empty related row when no values were submitted for that relationship, and while trying to reproduce it in a test I stumbled upon a possible bug that might mess up with the saving of nested blocks (I wanted to add an ignore_if_empty option for blocks, hence the name of the test below).
You will need to get a copy of my fork and switch to the ignore-if-empty-block branch:
? git clone git://github.com/pshangov/HTML-FormFu-Model-DBIC.git
? git checkout?ignore-if-empty-block
And then have a look at t\update\ignore-if-empty-block.t and?t\update\ignore-if-empty-block.yml.
In short, if I try to process my form with the following arguments:
? # resulset is MySchema::User, has_many 'addresses'
? 'name' ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? => 'Peter',
? 'addresses_counter' ? ? ? ?=> '1',
? 'addresses_1.address' ? ? ?=> '1 Baker Street',
? 'addresses_1.id' ? ? ? ? ? => '',
? 'addresses_1.city.name' ? ?=> 'London',
the 'city' relationship will be ignored and address.city_id' will be undef. This happens because H::FF::M::DBIC::_save_relationships does the following:
? # $rel is 'city'
??my $params = $form->param($rel); # undef, do not save anything
It seems this will fail to fetch parameters for any element with a 'nested_name' that?is not a direct child of the top-level form. Curiously, I can get it to work with the following trick:
? # Add fake relationship via 'city.id' (the form needs to be modified too)
? 'name' ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? => 'Peter',
? 'city.id' ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?=> 'whatever'
? 'addresses_counter' ? ? ? ?=> '1',
? ...
??my $params = $form->param($rel); # { id => 'whatever' }, so proceed with saving addresses.city
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?# address.city_id is now correctly set to '1'
??
I am not really sure how I should fix that. What is the correct way to fetch the parameters for a relationship that is nested more than one level deep?
Cheers,
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Peter