[html-formfu] Writing Catalyst - FormFu tests

Ascii King tech at swattermatter.com
Mon Aug 17 14:45:12 GMT 2009


I've tested the nested repeatable fix within my application and it is 
working great so far. Birds came out and sang to me because life was so 
good.

Thanks for the help, guys!

Carl Franks wrote:
> Hi Ascii,
>
> I've fixed HTML-FormFu - it wasn't handling counter names / values
> properly in nested repeatables.
>
> It now takes $self->counter_name,
> and then searches up the parent hierarchy for a field matching that name,
> it then uses that field's nested_name() to retrieve the correct count-value.
>
> I'll test and apply your files once the svn build is unbroken :)
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
>
> 2009/7/30 Ascii King <tech at swattermatter.com>:
>   
>> OK. So, three months later I have the test files done that will test the
>> ability to write to a repeatable nested within another repeatable in
>> HTML-FormFu-Model-DBIC. I am a little afraid to commit these to the
>> trunk(?), though because I don't want to mess up everything.
>>
>> I have attached the test files and the files I have altered. I have also
>> documented my changes.
>>
>> The tests create the following relationship
>> Master -> has_many -> Schedule
>> Schedule -> has_many -> Task
>>
>> It then creates a record in Master and two associated records in Schedule.
>> It then creates two records in Task that are both  associated with the
>> second record in Schedule.
>> It then tries to use the form to change the records.
>>
>> It successfully changes the first associated record in Task. (Test 5)
>> It fails to change the second associated record in Task. (Test 7)
>>
>> What can I do to get this fixed?  I'm willing to help, but I'm not a strong
>> programmer.
>>
>>
>> Carl Franks wrote:
>>     
>>> Yes - that's a good example.
>>>
>>> You'll need to checkout the entire distribution with
>>>    svn co
>>> http://html-formfu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/HTML-FormFu-Model-DBIC
>>>
>>> The test schema is described in t/lib/MySchema/
>>> If there's no suitable repeatable->repeatable relationships - if you
>>> create any new tables, then as well as updating the schema, you'll
>>> also need to update new_db() in t/lib/DBICTestLib.pm which is called
>>> by each test file to create the sqlite database.
>>>
>>> Rather than `make test`, I prefer using `prove` to run the test files,
>>> as it lets you run an individual test file.
>>> You'll need to install Test-Harness to get `prove`.
>>>    prove -l t/update/has_many_repeatable.t
>>>
>>> To create a patch file, you'll need to add any new files with `svn add
>>> filename`
>>> and then create the patch file with `svn diff > patchfile`
>>>
>>> Good luck!
>>> Carl
>>>
>>>       
>> ---
>> auto_fieldset: 1
>>
>> elements:
>> - type: Hidden
>>  name: id
>>
>> - type: Hidden
>>  name: sched_count
>>
>> - type: Repeatable
>>  nested_name: schedules
>>  counter_name: sched_count
>>  elements:
>>
>>  - type: Hidden
>>    name: id
>>
>>  - type: Text
>>    name: note
>>
>>  - type: Hidden
>>    name: count
>>
>>  - type: Repeatable
>>    nested_name: tasks
>>    counter_name: count
>>
>>    elements:
>>      - type: Hidden
>>        name: id
>>
>>      - type: Text
>>        name: detail
>>
>> - type: Submit
>>  name: submit
>>
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