Activerecord Attributes And Setting Foreign Keys

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I have a unit test that tries to save a record in a table with three foreign keys. But somehow that test failed unless I explicitly assigned the foreign keys via the accessors.

The test below passes with two assertions




public function testSaveViaAttributesWithForeignKeys(){

	$employee = $this->emp('student1');

	$timeEntry = new TimeEntry();

	$timeEntry->attributes = array(

		'student_id' => $employee->id, 

		'date' => 1387152000, 

		'hours_worked' => 8.00, 

		'hours_type_id' => 1, 

		'status_id' => 1

	);

	try {

		$timeEntry->save();

	} catch (Exception $e) {

		$timeEntry->student_id = $employee->id;

		$timeEntry->hours_type_id = 1;

		$timeEntry->status_id = 1;

		$this->assertTrue($timeEntry->save());

		$this->assertTrue(isset($e));

	}

}

Is this a bug or should I not specify foreign keys via the attributes array?

2

Assigning the attributes uses the setAttributes setter, which by default, sets only safe attributes. Apparently you have some rules that makes those FKs unsafe.

Try calling setAttributes($attributes, false) or adjust your rules.

3

Thanks a lot that fixed it.