[html-formfu] How do you handle "change password" forms?

[Carl Franks]

2009/3/30 Moritz Onken <onken at houseofdesign.de>:
> Hi,
>
> I have a pretty large form where you can change the password using two
> password fields which have to match if you want to change the password.
>
> Problem right now is, that these password fields get sent with an empty
> value and Model::DBIC inserts those empty strings in the database, thus
> changing the password. My workaround right now is to remove those two
> password fields if they are empty. This is done before submitted_and_valid
> and works great so far.
>
>  I was just wondering if there is a better way to do this. Or if it is
> reasonable to add this functionality to the model_config where Model::DBIC
> can pick it up and skip the password fields if they are empty.

Hmm, I'm confused.
I just did a grep for "ignore_if_empty" and found no matches - but I
would have sworn I added this in the last few weeks.
Maybe I just dreamed it.
If anyone wants to send a patch to add this to model_config() - (with
tests) - please do.

Carl