Name is overwritten by Id on model init

[atarix83]

Hi,

I would ask if there is some reason for that name is overwritten by Id value when a new instance of DynamicFormControlModel is created, or is a bug?
It would be useful sometimes to keep Id and name separated.

I paste the code line

ng-dynamic-forms/packages/core/src/model/dynamic-form-control.model.ts

Line 64 in 9f8cd83

this.name = config.id;

Thanks

[udos86]

@atarix83 Hi Guiseppe!

I would ask if there is some reason for that name is overwritten by Id value when a new instance of DynamicFormControlModel is created, or is a bug?

It's not a bug, it's intentional. To a certain degree Angular forms rely on name attribute and I wanted to avoid any possible bugs due to naming differences between id and name.

It would be useful sometimes to keep Id and name separated.

Could you please point that out?

[atarix83]

Could you please point that out?

I have a forms that describe a resource with some metadata. My problem is that the key of metadata, that should be the form field's id, could contains a dot (e.g. "dc.title"). I would use the name to store the real metadata key because saving the key with dot into id generates an error.
At the moment my solution is to set the model name after the model has been instantiated.

[udos86]

@atarix83

Alright, I'll take it into consideration bringing this back!

BTW: This feature was removed in beta.1 :-)

[atarix83]

@udos86 thank you so much!!

[1619digital]

Yes, this would be a very handy feature for the reasons @atarix83 mentioned.

Perhaps a low-risk solution would be for the html name attribute to render as the id if the name property on the control is null/empty/undefined. This would essentially make the behaviour stay the same, unless proactively set.

[udos86]

@atarix83 @PartyArk

Alright, this will be part of 5.1.2

[ar27111994]

Hi @udos86 @atarix83 , I'm still facing this issue, even though I am using the latest version 5.4.1 with Ionic UI. Please help.