Visible fields are not cleared when they become not visible about redux-autoform HOT 9 OPEN

What I mean is:

An easy solution (not necessarily the best) would RAF to have a property called submitInvisibleFieldValues that defaults to true (I said false earlier but I think it should be true). Then, upon submittion, a processor function should process the object before it's actually submitted, and then it would clear out properties that are invisible. That's how I think it should work. I don't think it's a priority so personally I don't want to get this, but I wouldn't mind if this was implemented.

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This is controversial. There might be use cases for not visible fields being posted, even though I clearly see why you're asking this.

We should use this thread to discuss the solution.

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@andrerpena @danigomez I was thinking that one possible workaround for this, it's to pass a visible prop, that all the components should receive. With this visible prop you evaluate the !visible case and handle the onChange with an undefined value.

This is one I think about and seems quite simple to do, Maybe I'm not seeing other things.. so let's discuss about it 😄

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@JonatanSalas Again, it's controversial.

The fact that a field is not visible doesn't mean it doesn't have a value. And it doesn't mean it should be undefined. In fact, a form may have several information relevant to functions that are not visible. And I don't think making a field invisible should clear it's value.

Let's think of something better and resume this discussion 😄

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@andrerpena mmm okey, let me think it better

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One easy option would be to create a general prop called submitInvisibleFieldValues that defaults to false but you could turn on at will.

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I don't think values should be cleared when turned invisible. Conversely, @danigomez's problem is the values being submitted. Maybe we should just treat it as I mentioned above.

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@andrerpena how are we supposed to use this prop? I don't understand at all how this prop should be used to avoid sending not visibile field values..

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@andrerpena when you can I want you to introduce me in the concepts behind your metadata processor, so I can help you to make this greater 😄

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