[html-formfu] Populate form using a complex hashref?

Carl Franks fireartist at gmail.com
Fri Feb 27 11:28:12 GMT 2009


2009/2/27 Moritz Onken <onken at houseofdesign.de>:
>
> Am 27.02.2009 um 12:10 schrieb Carl Franks:
>
>> 2009/2/27 Moritz Onken <onken at houseofdesign.de>:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> is it possible to populate a form with data using a complex hashref in
>>> ->process()?
>>>
>>> I'd like to fill a form with data like this:
>>>
>>> {user => "test", addresses => [{address => "somwhere"},{address =>
>>> "somewhere else"}]}
>>>
>>> where "addresses" is a repeatable block.
>>
>> No.
>> If this were added, it should be to default_values(), not process().
>> Passing a hash-ref to process() is just an easy way to fake a query
>> object.
>>
>> Carl
>
>
> Ok, so I'll try to create a HTML::FormFu::Model::HashRef.

Why not just extend HTML::FormFu::default_values() to handle it?
As it looks like you'd just be needing the default_values() side of
things, and not the update/create methods.

Carl



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