Hello I created a custom field type and field widget with multiple values, one entity reference and two checkboxes.
Everything's was working well, but to improve the usability of the fields, I would like to display the fields as a table, and that is when my problem begins.
I tried changing the field widget to be like a table, that visually worked to me, but now I will have problem because the keys of each field will be different than the defined in the field type, any suggestions in how to handle with this problem?
If i roll back and remove the 'multiple_route' key to create the table and set the $elements[''] like i orignally started the fields are saving correctly.
FieldWidgetType.php
class MultipleRouteWidgetType extends WidgetBase {
/**
* {@inheritdoc}
*/
public function formElement(FieldItemListInterface $items, $delta, array $element, array &$form, FormStateInterface $form_state) {
$element['multiple_route'] = [
'#type' => 'table',
'#header' => [
t(''),
t('checkbox 1'),
t('checkbox 2'),
],
];
$route_value = NULL;
if (isset($items[$delta]->route)) {
$route_value = \Drupal::entityTypeManager()->getStorage('node')->load(intval($items[$delta]->route));
}
$element['multiple_route'][0]['route'] = $element + [
'#title' => t('Page'),
'#type' => 'entity_autocomplete',
'#target_type' => 'node',
'#required' => TRUE,
'#empty_value' => NULL,
'#default_value' => $route_value,
];
$element['multiple_route'][0]['checkbox_1'] = [
'#title' => t('checkbox 1'),
'#type' => 'checkbox',
'#empty_value' => 0,
'#default_value' => isset($items[$delta]->checkbox_1) ? $items[$delta]->checkbox_1 : 0,
];
$element['multiple_route'][0]['checkbox_2'] = [
'#title' => t('checkbox_2.'),
'#type' => 'checkbox',
'#default_value' => isset($items[$delta]->checkbox_2) ? $items[$delta]->checkbox_2 : 0,
];
return $element;
}
}
Visually this is my goal and worked:
But now the fields will not save because the keys are different than the definied in the schema, resulting in this error:
The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later.
Error: Cannot create references to/from string offsets in
Drupal\Component\Utility\NestedArray::setValue() (line 155 of
core/lib/Drupal/Component/Utility/NestedArray.php).
Drupal\Component\Utility\NestedArray::setValue(Array, Array, NULL)
(Line: 1254)
Field Type.php property definitions and schema:
class RouteFieldType extends FieldItemBase {
/**
* {@inheritdoc}
*/
public static function propertyDefinitions(FieldStorageDefinitionInterface $field_definition) {
$properties['route'] = DataDefinition::create('integer')
->setLabel(new TranslatableMarkup('Page'))
->addConstraint('RouteConstraint', ['fieldName' => $field_definition])
->setRequired(TRUE);
$properties['checkbox_1'] = DataDefinition::create('boolean')
->setLabel(new TranslatableMarkup('checkbox_1'));
$properties['checkbox_2'] = DataDefinition::create('boolean')
->setLabel(new TranslatableMarkup('checkbox_2'));
return $properties;
}
/**
* {@inheritdoc}
*/
public static function schema(FieldStorageDefinitionInterface $field_definition) {
$schema = [
'columns' => [
'route' => [
'type' => 'int',
'unsigned' => TRUE,
'not null' => TRUE,
],
'checkbox_1' => [
'type' => 'int',
'size' => 'tiny',
'unsigned' => TRUE,
'not null' => TRUE,
'default' => 0,
],
'checkbox_2' => [
'type' => 'int',
'size' => 'tiny',
'unsigned' => TRUE,
'not null' => TRUE,
'default' => 0,
],
],
];
return $schema;
}