I have following setup:
Customer
- name
- age
Order
- customer -> Customer
View for Order - name: with-customer-age, extends _local
- customer view=with-age
View for Customer - name: with-age, extends _minimal
- ageOrder browser and editor uses the with-customer-age view and both use the age for some logic (could not think of any example - maybe different color for orders where customer does not meet a minimal age for all products)
Order browser has a lookup field with a datasource listing customers with _minimal view (wo age)
When CreateAction is used and instance is committed, DataManager.commit is called and provided with with-customer-age view, despite that, the returned entity has the customer field still in the _minimal view. First I thought this was by design, but I found out that this works perfectly well with EditAction - again commit is called, but the retrieved entitiy’s customer is returned with the view with-customer-age as it should be, so I consider this a bug.
Why is this a problem?
My actual scenario is much more complex and confidential. We have lots of views and we try to use them effectively (fetching with full view to lookup field seems like a waste). As well, it is sometimes impossible to think what a change in a dependency like this (towards a similar field like age) might cause - I want a view of an editor to be a contract - that this is the view that will be applied to the returned entity and I don’t want to think of all the possible lookup fields that a change in a view might affect.
Thank you,
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