Re: Still having trouble with saving BelongsToMany data

Unfortunately no, i don't know what hash i was on before i updated. It would be one of the untagged RC2 commits within the last couple weeks i was trying to get this to work.

i'm willing to backtrack, though, to try to find out. Suggestions how i would do that?

Looking at the PR list on Github & comparing that with the timeline of this thread, i'd say it's likely something within the last 4-5 PRs:
March 2: https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/pull/5991
March 6: https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/pull/6021
March 8: https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/pull/6030
March 10: https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/pull/5905

The most recent PR was March 11 fixing a link in a comment. Not a likely candidate. ;)

If you want me to try going backward prior to any of those, let me know how.
-joe

On Thursday, 12 March 2015 04:29:17 UTC-4, José Lorenzo wrote:

No, it is not related to that issue. Do you have any idea of what cake version you were using before updating?

On Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 4:37:50 AM UTC+1, Joe T. wrote:

i absolutely cannot believe this: it's broken again. i haven't done anything but run composer update and i'm back to losing the [_joinData][value] from request data when i patch the entity, so the joint table record inserts NULL. It DOES insert, but the _joinData is GONE from the entity.

Is there any chance it's related to this issue? https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/issues/6050

Now what?


On Sunday, 8 March 2015 00:40:49 UTC-5, Joe T. wrote:

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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