Re: 3.0: Entity get/set mutators

Don't use accessors for formatting your columns to be displayed in the view. The accessors are meant to get the data as it should be saved in the database. You can use instead a virtual field such as active_status:

protected function _activeStatus() {
 return $this->active ? 'Active' : 'Inactive';
}

echo $entity->active_status;

On Sunday, September 21, 2014 11:45:33 PM UTC+2, Joe Theuerkauf wrote:

i have several tables with an `active` column, and the Admin should be able to de/activate records to determine whether they & related records are available in the application.

Instead of constantly converting T/F or 1/0 to "Active"/"Inactive", i wrote an Entity getter:

protected function _getActive($active) {
    return $active ? 'Active' : 'Inactive';
}

That's been working pretty well. The Entity->active property always provides the string.

The problem is updating the data:

SomeTableController gets a request like /some_table/active/2/1 to set ID 2 "active" (1):

public function active($id, $active) {
    $entity = $this->SomeTable->get($id);
    $entity->active = $active;

    if ($this->SomeTable->save($entity)) {
        // Success!
    }
    else {
        // Fail!
    }
}

The problem: save() reports a successful save, but the database isn't updated. Scratch that: the `modified` column is updated, but not the `active` flag.

If i kill _getActive() the update works, but i lose the convenience of the string representation.

My guess is, i need a setter to handle the switch, but i'm not sure exactly how they work. The documentation (http://book.cakephp.org/3.0/en/orm/entities.html#Cake\ORM\Entity::set) for set mutators shows an example of setting some other entity property ('slug') using the 'title' property. But there's no example for mutating the property being called, and i don't know if that even makes sense...

Along with no _setActive mutator, i also tried the following:

protected function _setActive($active) {
    // $this->set('active', $active); <-- Created loop condition & fatal error.

    $this->_properties['active'] = $active;
    return $active;
}

No luck. It does the same as no setter: updates the entity (with updated active & modified properties), but save() doesn't write the changed active property to the database.

Any help? Thanks.
-joe t.

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