Kevin,
i'm so grateful for all your effort & ideas. i don't fully grasp
conditional validation yet, though i suspect i will have to address that
sooner or later. When i re-baked the models, ->requirePresence('field_name',
'create') is already set by default in *AttributesTable*, so that got me
nowhere.
i also tried making a one-stop association like so:
<input type="checkbox" name="listings_attributes[3][attribute_id]" value="1"
>
<input type="text" name="listings_attributes[3][value]"> <!-- Off-street -->
Then in the Controller:
$listing = $this->Listings->patchEntity($listing, $this->request->data, [
'associated' => ['ListingsAttributes']]);
It didn't produce any entity errors, but it didn't save the
ListingsAttributes record, either. The data never makes it to the entity.
What i ultimately had to do (though it feels *really* dirty) was your
initial suggestion: add all the *attribute* fields as hidden inputs.
However, that added another problem: ALL the attributes were being
submitted because the hidden fields were enabled for POSTing. So i had to
tweak the Javascript that presents a text input for the join data (value)
to also toggle the [*disabled*] property of all the hidden inputs for a
given Attribute check box.
i'm *FINALLY* getting data in the ListingsAttributes table. i'm not a fan
of doing it this way, but i'll have to live with it for now.
i really think there should be an option to tell the ORM to stop the save
at the join table, rather than always trying to update the linked record in
the associated table. If there is a way to do this with the ORM's save
options, it doesn't appear to be documented. Obviously, i followed the
documentation to the letter, but my assumption of its behavior was wrong.
Thanks again!
-joe
On Saturday, 7 March 2015 13:21:56 UTC-5, heavyKevy wrote:
>
> I thought of one more option...
>
> You can specify a separate validation specifically for adding the listing
> attributes such that the usual validation continues to be used and work as
> it was and the new validation works only for this instance. The
> documentation has all of the information on how to do this should you
> decide to choose this option...
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