[Catalyst] Empty strings and FormValidator

[Michael Reece]

Well, not exactly .. That puts the 'missing' optional fields back into valid
as undef, but Class::DBI::FromForm's _run_update only sets $them->$col($val)
if the value is defined ..

I am still open to suggestions on how to get these packages to play nice
together, if someone else has already solved this problem.

On 4/19/05 10:03 AM, "Michael Reece" <mreece at sacbee.com> wrote:

> Nevermind, I found the 'missing_optional_valid => 1' option.
> 
> On 4/19/05 9:55 AM, "Michael Reece" <mreece at sacbee.com> wrote:
> 
>> Using Catalyst::Plugin::FormValidator and Class::DBI::FromForm, I noticed
>> that 'cleared' values (empty string) are not saved.
>> 
>> This is because Data::FormValidator->check deletes empty values from the
>> 'valid' hash:
>> 
>> (in Data/FormValidator/Results.pm, sub _process)
>> 
>>   delete $valid{$field} unless (defined $valid{$field} and length
>> $valid{$field});
>> 
>> so these cleared fields are never updated by update_from_form.
>> 
>> Has anyone dealt with this problem or have suggestions?
>> 
>> 
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