Get Data from Modelless Form

Need Help
1

Hi,

Following the docs for Modelless form (cake 3)

I am trying to get the form’s data.

In the normal form, there is getData() but sadly, it doesn’t work for modelless form. It seems that I can only get the data using $this->request->getData()

My object currently looks like this after post.

object(App\Form\DatetimeForm) {

	'_schema' => [
		'_fields' => [
			'start_datetime' => [
				'type' => 'datetime',
				'length' => null,
				'precision' => null,
				'default' => null
			],
			'end_datetime' => [
				'type' => 'datetime',
				'length' => null,
				'precision' => null,
				'default' => null
			]
		]
	],
	'_errors' => [],
	'_validator' => [
		'_presenceMessages' => [],
		'_allowEmptyMessages' => [],
		'_allowEmptyFlags' => [],
		'_useI18n' => true,
		'_providers' => [
			(int) 0 => 'form'
		],
		'_fields' => []
	],
	'_schemaClass' => 'Cake\Form\Schema',
	'_data' => [
		'start_datetime' => object(Cake\I18n\Time) {

			'time' => '2021-02-07 21:00:00.000000+08:00',
			'timezone' => 'Asia/Singapore',
			'fixedNowTime' => false
		
		},
		'end_datetime' => object(Cake\I18n\Time) {

			'time' => '2021-02-07 21:00:00.000000+08:00',
			'timezone' => 'Asia/Singapore',
			'fixedNowTime' => false
		
		}
	],
	'_eventManager' => object(Cake\Event\EventManager) {

		'_listeners' => [
			'Form.buildValidator' => '1 listener(s)'
		],
		'_isGlobal' => false,
		'_trackEvents' => false,
		'_generalManager' => '(object) EventManager',
		'_dispatchedEvents' => null
	
	},
	'_eventClass' => 'Cake\Event\Event',
	'_validatorClass' => 'Cake\Validation\Validator',
	'_validators' => [
		'default' => object(Cake\Validation\Validator) {

			'_presenceMessages' => [],
			'_allowEmptyMessages' => [],
			'_allowEmptyFlags' => [],
			'_useI18n' => true,
			'_providers' => [
				(int) 0 => 'form'
			],
			'_fields' => []
		
		}
	]

}
2

What do you mean by "In the normal form, there is getData()"? Can you show the code that’s not working, and explain how you expect it to work?

3

Sorry, after checking again, the getData() works

$startAndEndDatetimeForm = new DatetimeForm();
$tmpStartTime  = new Time();
$tmpEndTime = new Time();
$startAndEndDatetimeForm->setData([
	'start_datetime' => $tmpStartTime,
	'end_datetime' => $tmpEndTime,

]);
debug( $startAndEndDatetimeForm->getData() );