[html-formfu] nested repeatables not showing data

Ascii King tech at swattermatter.com
Wed Apr 8 15:01:52 GMT 2009


I am using FormFu with Catalyst to load a very complex form. I am 
testing a repeatable within a repeatable call to the database and it is 
failing to display the data from the database.

Organization -> has_many -> Person -> has_many -> Equipment

An Organization (table) has many Person (table) records.
A Person (table) has many Equipment (table) records.

    * I can display the Organization record.
    * I place the related Person records within a repeatable element and
      they display fine.
    * I place the related Equipment  records within a repeatable element
      and they display fine.
    * I place the related Equipment  records within a repeatable element
      inside of the Person repeatable and they will NOT display any data.


It does however display the right number of Equipment records, but the 
fields are all empty.

It seems to me that the  "sub _fill_nested" routine is the part that 
won't populate the fields. HTML-FormFu-Model-DBIC seems to have pulled 
the data from the database accurately, but it will not put the data into 
the fields. Perhaps it is because it doesn't know how to interpret the 
new fieldname with the extra underscore and number?

example:
<input name="persons.equipments.equipment_id_1_3" type="hidden" 
id="persons.equipments.equipment_id_1_3" />




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