Is there a way to make a nullable field non-optional when creating an entity? #6744
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Why would you care about this? If the value can be null, you are not required to provide the value, why should we have a compile error for things that are fine on runtime? edit: if this is about object embeddables (where I can understand you might want to enforce explicit |
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We just have a lot of fields that are nullable and it's easy to forget that they exist when creating entities (e.g. |
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And you would want this behaviour for all nullable properties, or selectively? Maybe we could introduce a type similar to the |
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probably selectively but could see us doing all for completeness
I like it!! |
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Maybe you could use a custom type, with some special runtime value for null (e.g. a symbol property), which would be converted back to edit: actually, not necessarily, the runtime value would be under your control and never |
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This would be technically breaking, and from my point of view, most people would prefer the current behaviour than what you are asking for (nobody asked for this yet), so I'd like to keep that explicit. To me, the |
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Sweet I'll take a stab at |
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Unfortunately |
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What about |
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Put up a PR here - lmk what you think! #6756 |
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If I have a property like:
Is there to way to make it required when creating a row? Basically I don't want to forget to supply the field, even if it's null:
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