[html-formfu] Looking for clarification on ComboBox and Model::DBIC

[Carl Franks]

2011/10/5 Alex Povolotsky <tarkhil at over.ru>:
> Hello!
>
> I'm working on a simple database, minimal extract looks like
>
> create table genre (id serial primary key, genre_name varchar(128) not
> null);
>
> create table shot (id serial primary key, gid int not null references
> genre(id), name varchar(128) not null);
>
> Catalyst has created appropriate model.
>
> Now I want to add new genres automatically with ComboBox. I add to .yml
>
>  - type: ComboBox
>    name: genre_name
>    label: Genre
>    model_config:
>      resultset: Genre
>    constraints:
>      - Required
>
> and when I enter name on text part of combobox, model->create yields an
> error
>
>  null value in column "gid" violates not-null constraint
>
> What should I do to make HTML::FormFu::Model::DBIC to add new genre and
> appropriate genre id?

Hi,
Model::DBIC would definitely need to be patched to explicitly handle ComboBoxes.
I'll try to make the time to work on this - as I think it's a pretty
basic requirement that built-in elements work with Model::DBIC as
expected.
Carl