Override writing behavior
Last updated
Was this helpful?
Last updated
Was this helpful?
This is the official documentation of the agent_ruby
Ruby agent.
Forest Admin allows replacing the default field writing behavior with your own custom logic.
This is useful when you want to change how a given field behaves, but also to make writable.
The replace_field_writing
function allows to change the behavior of any change by creating a new patch that will be applied to the record.
You should refrain from using handlers that have side effects (to perform error handling, validation, ...) and .
In the following example, editing or creating a fullName
will update both firstName
and lastName
fields of the record.
You can have different behavior for creations
and updates
.
In this example, each time the firstName
field is edited, we also want to update a timestamp field.
In this simple example, we have two collections that are linked together:
The Users
collection has a job
and a portfolioId
as foreignKey
The Portfolios
collection has a title
When the user updates his job
field we want also to update the title
of the portfolio by the job
name.
You can also provide another portfolioId
to update the relationships and their fields:
Of course, you can chain the relationships. For example, if a portfolio has a one-to-one
relationship with the formats
collection, you can update it by writing the right path.