[Rt-devel] [PATCH]: Data normalisation for multi-valued CFs in GUI create

[Jesse Vincent]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:20:00PM -0800, Philip Kime wrote:
> Rather obscure unless you're digging around in the core API and dealing
> with CFs and validation etc. but important. Multi-valued Select field
> values were being passed into the ticket Create() sub in two different
> ways:
>  
> * When there was only one value, as a string
> * When multi-valued, as an array ref
>  
> This made some things I was doing with CF validation changes really hard
> and probably should be standardised anyway (multiple Enter fields always
> get passed in as array refs, nomatter how many values) so that if
> $cf->SingleValue is false, then the value of a CF passed in to Create()
> can be relied upon to be an array ref.

That sounds like it's going to be an API change that's backwards
incompatible. Why can't you just do canonicalization once it's in sub
Create?

Jesse

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> Patch is against 3.6.3 Web.pm
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> PK
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