On 09/04/07, Daisuke Maki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Can you clarify for me how deflators are supposed to work?My impression was that deflators are always run against a field during render() time, if one is specified in the spec. For example, elements: - type: text name: foo inflator: - type: +MyCustom::Inflator defaltor: - type: +MyCustom::Deflator So I want to receive some stuff in "foo" as text, but turn them into a Perl object while I'm working with it -- then I want to call the object's stringification method to turn it into a string again. Looking at the code in HTML::FormFu::Element::input::_render_value, I see: if ( !$self->form->submitted ) { for my $deflator ( @{ $self->_deflators } ) { $value = $deflator->process($value); } } which threw me off. So deflators aren't run if the form has been submitted? Is this right?
The way they work at the moment, they´re intended to be run on values you set yourself: $field->default($obj) such as when you recieve a DateTime object from DBIx::Class. When you redisplay a form, the original submitted value is used. Filtered / inflated values aren´t used, so it shouldn´t prove a problem that the deflators are only used when it´s not been submitted. Of course, this is only how I think it should work - the code might differ from my memory! I´m also open to suggestions on how it might work better, as well. Carl _______________________________________________ Html-widget mailing list Html-widget@lists.rawmode.org http://lists.rawmode.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/html-widget
