Allow single-valued data selector input to be passed as an array for 'multiple' context fields

Created on 11 May 2016, over 8 years ago

Updated 11 October 2023, about 1 year ago

Problem/Motivation

Some actions have context fields which are 'multiple' - that is, they accept a list of values (e.g. the 'To:' field for the 'SystemSendEmail' action). This means the data passed to the context must be a list of the required datatype. This was worked on in #2648300: Support multiple contexts in the UI → .

However we now cannot enter variables like user.mail in the "To:" field using the data selector input (as opposed to the direct input mode) because emails are typically not stored as a list of values, but as single string.

Proposed resolution

(Maybe) wrap multiple context fields in an array if the provided data is not an array. But I am open to other solutions.

Remaining tasks

User interface changes

API changes

Data model changes

📌 Task

Status

Needs work

Version

3.0

Component

Rules Core

Created by

🇬🇧United Kingdom yanniboi UK

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!70Allow single-valued data selector input to be passed as an array for 'multiple' context fields
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🇺🇸United States tr
updated 4 months ago

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Comment about 1 year ago →
🇳🇱Netherlands megachriz
Here is a reroll of the patch in #20.

For successful using the "send email" action I also need the patch from 📌 Integrate Typed Data Widgets Needs review . With that one you'll get a textarea instead of a textfield for the message body.
Since the patch from that issue and the patch from here conflict, here is also patch that is built on top of #2471481-174: Integrate Typed Data Widgets → .
Open in Jenkins → Open on Drupal.org →
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last update about 1 year ago
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Comment 4 months ago →
🇺🇸United States tr Cascadia
Merge request !70Patch from #2723259-23 (rules-single-value-selector-to-array-2723259-23.patch)... → (Open) created by tr
Comment 10 days ago →
🇪🇪Estonia tormi Tallinn
Saved changes from #25 MR as a static patch for rules v4.0.

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