On 18/02/07, RA Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I have been experimenting with Catalyst::Controller::FormBuilder. I'm > trying to provide an edit form for objects read from and written to the > DB via DBIx::Class. Have FormBuilder automatically load the data from > DBIC into the form seems pretty easy with something like: > > my $widget = $c->model('MyAppDB::Widget')->find($id); > my $form = $self->formbuilder; > $form->values($widget->get_columns); > > > However, an elegant way of writing the data back out is not jumping out > at me. I know I could manually copy each field out of the $form object > to my $widget object, but it seems like there should be simple way to do > it all in one line like I got with the > "$form->values($widget->get_columns);" above. > > Any suggestions? What are other folks doing for C::C::FormBuilder and DBIC?I'm pretty new to this, but this is what I did: sub edit : Local Form { # get data into form pretty much as above, then: if ( $form->submitted && $form->validate ) { $c->stash->{user} = $user; $c->forward('do_edit'); } sub do_edit : Private { my ($self, $c) = @_; my $form = $self->formbuilder; my $fields = $form->field; $c->stash->{user}->update($fields); $c->flash->{status_msg} = 'User updated'; $c->response->redirect( $c->req->base . 'users/view/' . $c->stash->{user}->id ); } Not sure if it's the 'best' way, but it works. Will be interesting to see what other suggestions you get.
It might be worth looking at the code for DBIx::Class::HTMLWidget for some ideas http://search.cpan.org/src/ANDREMAR/DBIx-Class-HTMLWidget-0.09/lib/DBIx/Class/HTMLWidget.pm When you're populating the form from the database, would your $form->values($widget->get_columns); correctly set select menus? Also, (for all browsers that I'm aware of) no value is sent back to the server for unchecked radioboxes - so it'd be worth checking whether the "$fb->field" solution handles this properly. (I don't know, as I've only read the formbuilder docs, I've never used it). Cheers, Carl _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.rawmode.org Listinfo: http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.rawmode.org/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
