[Zope3-Users] Re: z3c.multiform ItemAction does not supply action handler with all the data?

[Alek Kowalczyk]

Alek Kowalczyk <thealx at ...> writes:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not sure if it is an error or my mistake in using ItemAction.
> 
> I have some multiform inheriting from GridItemFormBase. 
> I had "Edit Items" and "Save Items" actions.
> They are implemented as  <at> parentAction decorator. 
> Now I decided that I want to have per-item actions
> (buttons displayed in subform row, not below the table). 
> So I changed decorators to  <at> itemAction.
> 
> "Edit Item" still works fine (i.e enables edit mode for particular row), 
> but "Save Item" stopped to work. 
> It does not change values for the item to the ones entered in edit boxes. 
> It seems that 'data' parameter after handleSubmit contains only 
> 'selected' checkbox value, instead of all the data. 
> For some reason validator does not load data from other widgets.
> 
> Am I missing some important step in using  <at> itemAction?
> 

I found that when submitting "Save" action (i.e exit from Input Mode), then in
the FormBase.validate(self, action, data) function self.widgets contains:
(a) "Input" versions of my widgets if the handler decorator is @parentAction
(b) "Display" versions of my widgets if the handler decorator is @itemAction
Because of that, in (b) case the FormBase.validate code (below) does not load
data with the values supplied by user. 
        return (getWidgetsData(self.widgets, self.prefix, data)
                + checkInvariants(self.form_fields, data))

But still not sure if it is a bug, or I just use itemAction incorrectly.

Regards!
Alek.