If the option is true, the password is never written into the input field's value. If it is false, it is only written into the input field's value after submitting a form with errors.
The default value for "always_empty" is true.
The semantics of property paths are now:
(1) if a property path is set, it is _always_ respected (relative to the object
of the parent field)
(2) if no property path is set, the object of the parent field is _always_ ignored
Fact (2) allows us to set data into fields that is updated independently of the parent
field (like CSRF tokens, subforms with different objects etc.)
What is missing now is support for subfields that pass the object of the parent field
through to their own subfields. This functionality would be needed for GoogleMapFields,
DateRangeFields etc., which are compositions of individual fields that update the
parent object of the FieldGroup.
There are several alternatives for the latter functionality that should be discussed
in a RFC.
The constraint "Valid" does not accept any options or groups anymore. As per
JSR303 1.0 final, section 3.5.1 "Object graph validation" (page 39),
properties annotated with valid should be cascaded independent of the current
group (i.e. always). Thus the group "*" is not necessary anymore and was
removed from the "Valid" constraint in the Form validation.xml.
Support for theming in PHP templates has been dropped.
True theming should support theme inheritance, e.g. mytheme <- table <- default.
Currently, the Templating component does not support such inheritance. As the
only purpose of the themes so far was to style field groups with tables or
divs, and because automatic rendering of field groups/forms through the render()
method is discouraged and only recommended for rapid prototyping, themes are
dropped for now.
Added ability to specify **match-all** validation group, which
constraints will runs on every specified validation group.
Added groups="*" option to `Form::data` Valid validator.
Fields can now easier support different data types in their underlying object.
These datatypes can be normalized to a single datatype using a normalization
transformer. The normalized value can then be transformed to the user's
representation with the value transformer (better name required?).
When reading the last bit of a property path mapped to a missing array index, the method would initialize the value to an empty array. This makes sense for cases where readPropertyPath would again be called recursively, but not when the value would be immediately returned (null would be preferable in that case).
For example, we have an object with a property called "options" that's an array of arbitrary key/value pairs. That "options" property (and getOptions()) maps directly to a FieldGroup within the Form for this object. That FieldGroup contains multiple TextFields for a few expected keys in the array. As-is, if those keys were not defined, the default data set for those TextFields could end up being "Array" (string representation of an empty array). If readPropertyPath instead returns null for this case, the default data would be transformed into an empty string.
It's better to be able to fetch all the visible and all the hidden fields separately for display purposes (hidden fields in <ul> tags without an <li> do not validate)
ReflectionClass doesn't list properties on stdClass objects (or objects cast
from arrays). This allows these annoymous objects to be used as field data.
Internally, ChoiceField expects both choices and preferred_choices to be a simple array, so I replaced incomplete bits of code that attempted to not modify a possible ArrayObject and instead added type checks in the configure() method (with unit tests for expected exceptions).
Property paths such as fields[group].fields[innerGroup].data were not being resolved correctly, since the second iteration of addError() (based on "group") would attempt to call get('fields') instead of get('innerGroup'). Solution is to remember to bump the propertyPath forward if we're at the fields property
