`<SelectField>`: `defaultValue` does not work as expected

[Vrtak-CZ]

Hi,
Let me simplify my problem.

I have this schema.

export class Category {
    name = def.stringColumn().notNull()
    articles = def.oneHasMany(Article, 'articles')
}

export class Article {
    name = def.stringColumn().notNull()
    category = def.manyHasOne(Category, 'articles')
}

Then I have this simple form

const ArticleForm = Component(
	() => (
		<>
			<TextField field="name" label="Name" />
			<SelectField field="category" label="Category" options="Category.name" defaultValue="62522664-1681-49a8-85c9-21998ef4158c" />
		</>
	),
)

export default () => (
	<CreatePage
		entity="Article"
	>
		<ArticleForm />
	</CreatePage>
)

This will not throw any error and also not "preselect" Category with id 62522664-1681-49a8-85c9-21998ef4158c.

[matej21]

Hi, you are problably using the custom component I've send you, right?
you are right that missing entity handling is not present, you can add an else branch and display an error message or whatever

		if (entity) {
			currentEntity.connectEntityAtField(field, entity)
		} else {
			// do stuff
		}

[Vrtak-CZ]

Hi, you are problably using the custom component I've send you, right?

As workaround yes. But heavily modified.

Thats not point of this issue. I'm reporting weird behavior of implementation for native SelectField. Where I expect it to work or throw an error.

[matej21]

Thanks for clarifying that.

You are right that defaultValue for dynamic selects is currently silently omitted. It is in our internal backlog and defaultValue will be supported someday.