[html-formfu] nested repeatables not showing data

[Moritz Onken]

Never tried a repeatable inside a repeatable. A block element  
(belongs_to rel) inside a repeatable blocks works.

Am 08.04.2009 um 18:27 schrieb Zbigniew Lukasiak:

> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Ascii King <tech at swattermatter.com>  
> wrote:
>> 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" />
>
> Last time I looked (this was a year ago - so things might have
> changed) FormFu was not fully recursive - that is it officially only
> supported one level of nesting.  I've managed to make part of the
> methods to be fully recursive - but not all of them - so now it
> confussingly sometimes works  and sometimes not.
>
>
> -- 
> Zbigniew Lukasiak
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>
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