Adding new entity through foreign controller with custom form input names

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@Zuluru

So your form has controls named product_name , product_size , etc., but your Products table has just name , size , etc.?

Correct. For the exact reason you are confirming.

@Zuluru

What you provide to patchEntity (and the names of the fields you validate on) must exactly match the table, so if there’s some mapping to be done then you need to do that yourself.

That’s clear then, thanks.

@Zuluru

Looks like you’re maybe trying to do that with the array_intersect_key call? Does the resulting $product_fields have the keys you expect to see?

No, with this I extract only the relevant fields of getData(). Since getData(‘x’, ‘y’, ‘z’) retrieves only the first argument. But this may be superfluous if the patchEntity automatically addresses the right fields, that I don’t know and is partly the reason for issuing this topic. I assumed the complete getData() as input would be troublesome as it contains form data of multiple models.

@Zuluru

If you really need to do this,

Well, I am unsure. I am quite sure it is not, respecting your experience and indication of doubt.
This is just another attempt to enable one user-facing form to possibly create entities of different models. This is one way of trying next to Nested add forms of multiple tables via form buttons - #12 by Zuluru. I figured multiple models need to be handled in one controller function/method, one way or another.