[html-formfu] Question about grabbing info from Repeatable element

[Mario Minati]

Shawn Moughtin schrieb:
> Mario Minati wrote:
>
>> Hi Shawn,
>>
>> sorry but I don't understand yet where your problem lifes. On the 
>> javscript side or on the perl side. Usually formfu will do all the 
>> backend processing for you and you don't have to play with 
>> nested_names and so on.
>> You can add more fields with javascript and just adjust the count 
>> field and it will work.
>> Maybe you forgot to the set new_rows_max modelconfig value of the 
>> repeatable block to an appropriate value, otherwise the DBIC model 
>> will not add the new rows.
>>
>> Greets,
>>
>> Mario
>>
> That is working for me. The problem I am having is that I am using 
> someone else's javascript code that provides additional functionality 
> if I give the <div> tag surrounding the repeatable element a  
> sequential ID. Since the auto_id doesn't affect the div tag, I need to 
> grab the ID from an element and build a sequential ID from it.
>
> My blockage is that nested_name only contains information if the 
> repeatable is only one level deep.
> For example:
>
> type: Repeatable
> nested_name:  outer
> elements:
>  type: Repeatable
>  nested_name: inner
>  elements:
>
> If I grab the nested_name from the outer repeatable, I would get 
> nested_name == outer_1
> If I grab the inner nested_name, I would hope to get nested_name == 
> outer_1.inner_1, but instead I get a NULL
>

Maybe the HTML::FormFu test in t/nested/elements/repeatable_repeatable.t 
helps you understanding.
If you call nested_name on the field, than you should no get NULL.

Greets,

Mario Minati