Change data on the way in
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How do we modify the data on the way in? For example, my model has a Date field. Obviously I don't want that showing up in the text box as-is. I need to run it through some type of DateFormatter before it's filled in as the value of the field, for example when I'm doing an edit request.
Good question! Ideally we would have control over the en/decoder that's being used so we could use a custom dateDecodingStrategy and dateEncodingStrategy but I don't see how we'd do that.
I haven't gotten around to testing it but my idea for dealing with this was to have date as a String on your Submission struct and Create and do the conversion there, using a computed var for instance.
This situation also calls for another tag ("dategroup") to set the correct input type. I'll try to get an example up in my test project as soon as I have time again.
I forked this thinking I could help with some templates, but it's not the full "project", like with a .xcodeproj file, so I wasn't sure how to participate.
@grosch You contributions would be very welcome! The xcodeproj is generally not part of any server-side swift package or project. It needs to be generated from the Package.swift file using swift package generate-xcodeproj or Vapor's vapor xcode command, see https://docs.vapor.codes/3.0/getting-started/hello-world/.
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