How to handle models with no ID?

[rdk8]

Hi Josh,

I haven't dug into the code yet, but I don't see anything relevant in the documentation. Is it possible to handle models that don't have an ID field? In my case I am using a view that returns a list of names without IDs. If I omit the ID prop, I get an undefined column error where it's looking for an ID column.

Thanks,
Raja

[joshhanley]

@rdk8 hmm I think you would still need some way to distinguish one model from the next. So if your list of names are unique, you could use name as the identifier as well as using name for the display.

To do that, pass an array into the options parameter with a key of id value of name (or whatever the property on your model will be unique)

<x-lwa::autocomplete
...
:options="[
        'id' => 'name',
]"

That would then essentially work similar to if you had a standard html select with the option value and label the same, like <option value="{{ $model->name }}">{{ $model->name }}</option>

Hope this helps!