can't set attributes to fields in elemental

[sunnysideup]

Affected Version

4.7 + Elemental

Description

The attributes do not seem to be applied to any Elemental Block fields. This is a real shame because it makes the Elemental Block not as pretty as it could be.

Steps to Reproduce

Add the following fields to a page:

        $fields->addFieldsToTab(
            'Root.Links',
            [
                OptionsetField::create('LinkType', 'Link Type', $this->owner->dbObject('LinkType')->enumValues())
                    ->setAttribute('onclick', 'console.log(1)'),
                TextField::create('ExternalLink', 'External Link')
                     ->setAttribute('placeholder', 'test')
            ]
        );

Attributes work fine.

Add them to an Elemental Block and it does not work.

Having onchange available is awesome because you can added conditionals - etc...

[michalkleiner]

Should the issue be better raised with https://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-elemental/ module?

[sunnysideup]

Should the issue be better raised with https://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-elemental/ module?

Sure, my guess is that is a GraphQL conversion issue, rather than an Elemental specific issue.

[kinglozzer]

Thanks for reporting @sunnysideup, I’m going to close this as we’re tracking it in a couple of places already:

• setAttribute doesn't work in inline_editable=true silverstripe-elemental#738
• Form field attributes aren’t included in form schema #9124

I found a possible workaround until it’s fixed by calling setSchemaData() directly, from memory it was something like this:
$field->setSchemaData(['attributes' => ['placeholder', 'test']])

[micschk]

Temporary workaround (eg for placeholder attribute):
$field->setSchemaData(['attributes' => ['placeholder' => 'My placeholder value']]);