Versioning when adding content class attribute from PHP

Friday 15 April 2011 4:19:16 am

Hi,

I have created the project http://projects.ez.no/nmcontentclass which is supposed to make it easier to work with a class specification, and have that spec imported as new and modified classes into eZ Publish.

The extension works as intended, except for one thing: When I try to add an attribute to an existing class, the attribute is only displayed when creating a new object from that class, and not when modifying an object which existed before the attribute was added.

I suspect that this is related to class and/or class attribute versioning, but I can't wrap my head around how this is supposed to work.

When a attribute is created, here's an exerpt of code that is run (I've removed some code which I assume is irrelevant). For more code, check out the updateClasses() method in http://svn.projects.ez.no/nmcontentclass/trunk/classes/contentclass.php

// create attribute$attribute = eZContentClassAttribute::create( $classID, $dataType, array(), $languageLocale);
$dt = $attribute->dataType();
$dt->initializeClassAttribute( $attribute );
$attribute->store();

// update attribute
$attrParams = array();
$attrParams['identifier'] = $attributeData['identifier'];
$attrParams['name'] = $attributeData['name'];
$attrParams['is_searchable'] = 1;
$attrParams['is_required'] = 0;
$attrParams['placement'] = $attributeData['placement'];
$attrParams['version'] = $classVersionID; // this is defined earlier in the code

foreach($attrParams as $key => $val)
{
if($val != $attribute->attribute($key))
{
$attribute->setAttribute( $key, $val);
}
}

$attribute->store();

Sincerely,

Eirik Alfstad Johansen
http://www.netmaking.no/

Monday 25 April 2011 11:45:08 pm

Hi Edi,

Thanks a bunch. I was not aware of this.

However, I'm curious as to whether this happens automatically when an attribute is added through the admin interface, as this seems to be the case.

Sincerely,

Eirik Alfstad Johansen
http://www.netmaking.no/