[html-formfu] DBIC: setting accessor for a Select element triggers options_from_model()

[Zbigniew Lukasiak]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Steve Caldwell
<info-formfu at caldwellhb.com> wrote:
> I'm building a form that has a Select element that I'm mapping to a
>  non-column accessor on my DBIC object, as described in "non-column
>  accessors" in the HTML::FormFu::Model::DBIC POD, like this:
>
>  ---
>  action: /foo
>  elements:
>   - type: Select
>     name: bar
>     label: Your Bar
>     db:
>       accessor: bar
>     options:
>       - [ 01, January ]
>       - [ 02, February ]
>
>  When I then try and populate it from my DBIC object:
>
>  $form->defaults_from_model( $myobj );
>
>  HTML::FormFu::Model::DBIC::options_from_model gets called (thanks to
>  line 44 in HTML::FormFu::Element::_Group), which then overwrites the
>  options I've set from my select list with a bunch of stuff from the
>  database.  This is obviously not what I want here.

Just for clarification in that 44 line in
HTML::FormFu::Element::_Group you are in post_process - and
post_process is called after processing the form not in the
options_from_model call.

Can anyone confirm that?


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