From 69c2d1a2601dff14a744d21e83ce46f2648c1a51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: eileen <emcnaughton@wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 14:09:34 +1300
Subject: [PATCH] Reinstate parsing of data from the form

This means that data can be set in an embedded form e.g

 <af-entity data='{name_a : options.name_a,  name_b : options.name_b, is_name_b_nickname: options.is_name_b_nickname, is_name_b_inferior: options.is_name_b_inferior}' .... />

In this case the options.name_as comes from the directive that instantiates this afform
---
 ext/afform/core/ang/af/Form.js | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ext/afform/core/ang/af/Form.js b/ext/afform/core/ang/af/Form.js
index 06f3b9d183..e97a40e9df 100644
--- a/ext/afform/core/ang/af/Form.js
+++ b/ext/afform/core/ang/af/Form.js
@@ -20,7 +20,10 @@
 
         this.registerEntity = function registerEntity(entity) {
           schema[entity.modelName] = entity;
-          data[entity.modelName] = [];
+          // Permitting entity.data allows the afform to specify variables like
+          // that has been passing into the afform with the directive that initiates it.
+          // This is an advanced usage & afJoin is more normal.
+          data[entity.modelName] = entity.data || {};
         };
         this.getEntity = function getEntity(name) {
           return schema[name];
-- 
2.25.1