[html-formfu] defaults_from_model doesn't call deflators

[Moritz Onken]

I think you are wrong. Things like HTML::FormFu::Inflator::DateTime  
exist to inflate a submitted value into an object.
A deflator would do the opposite like HTML::FormFu::Deflator::Strftime.


Am 04.02.2008 um 21:14 schrieb Brian Cassidy:

> Moritz Onken wrote:
>> I created a DateTime deflator in the form config file but this  
>> deflator isn't called on defaults_from_model. I can't find a  
>> deflator call in the source of HTML::FormFu::Model::DBIC. Is  
>> supposed to be? I could add the deflator to the dbic table but I  
>> prefer the formfu deflator.
>
> I may be mistaken, but going /from/ the model would mean that  
> inflators are called. Saving /to/ the model is when deflation would  
> happen.
>
> As a diagram:
>
> +------+ <--- ( defaults_from_model/inflate ) ---- +-------+
> | FORM |                                           | MODEL |
> +------+ ---- ( save_to_model/deflate ) ---------> +-------+
>
> -Brian
>
>
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