[Nitro] Hash and field name

[George Moschovitis]

thanks Manolis, nice to see you contributing back to the project ;-)

regards,
George.

On 9/21/05, Emmanuel Piperakis <epiperak at softlab.ece.ntua.gr> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Emmanuel Piperakis wrote:
> 
> >> <input name="testobj[key1]" ... />
> >> <input name="testobj[key2]" ... />
> > Sorry , I checked this and it did not work with fill. :-(
> > No worries though...
> >
> In order for hash to work:
> 1) In the model it has to be initialized (use symbols here , :en, :jp)
> class Bgroup
>    property   :title,    Hash
>    def initialize
>      @title = Hash.new
>      @title[:en] = @title[:jp] = nil
>    end
> end
> 
> 2) in the template use " and not ' for the name definition, and not
> symbols, just plain strings (populate @bgroup for edit case)
> <input id="bgroup_title[en]" name="title[en]" value=@bgroup.title[:en] />
> <input id="bgroup_title[jp]" name="title[jp]" value=@bgroup.title[:jp] />
> (the name="title[en]" is returned as "title" => {"en" => "inputed value",
> "jp" => "inputed other value" }   )
> 
> 3) in the controller manually assign the values. fill function does not
> work correctly with Hash, that is also why Date is not stored with fill
> (I guess...)
> def bgroup_save(meth = 'new')
>    if request.post?
>      if meth == 'new'
>        bgroup = Bgroup.new
>      elsif meth == 'update'
>        oid = request['oid']
>        bgroup = Bgroup[oid]
>      end
> #    request.fill(bgroup)
>      bgroup.title[:en] = request['title']['en']
>      bgroup.title[:jp] = request['title']['jp']
>      bgroup.creation = Date.new(request['creation']['year'].to_i,
>                                 request['creation']['month'].to_i-1,
>                                 request['creation']['day'].to_i,
>                                 Date::ITALY)
>      bgroup.save
>    end
>    expire_output 'bgroups'
>    redirect_to_referer
> end
> 
> Sorry for the NOT ELEGANT solution, but until fill is updated to handle
> Hash better this will do.. ;-)
> 
> Emmanouil Piperakis (epiperak at cs.ntua.gr)
> {To explore is Human, to Create is Devine,
>   To teach is Primal, to Rule is Sin}
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