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Hey guys, I’ve registered a custom REST field to allow a user to get and update some data in an ACF repeater field.
The issue I’m having – actually there are two – is that the response from the POST request to update the record contains the previous value of the ACF repeater row.
I’ve narrowed this down to two things. Firstly, when I update the record, ACF maintains an $active_loop
, which I needed to reset after updating the row, which I have done so using reset_rows();
This was causing the have_rows()
loop to return false when I was fetching the new data for the row.
Secondly – and where I’m still stuck- is when I go to fetch the updated record. It seems like ACF maintains a local store of fields, which it queries before it looks at the database acf-value-functions.php line 64 $store = acf_get_store( 'values' );
.
I found an undocumented function acf_reset_local()
which I thought would clear the store, but it doesn’t work. I need to clear the store (or at least update it), so that I can fetch the correct record from the database.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
Code snippets included below:
public static function get_private_note($prepared, $field_name, $request, $object_type)
{
if (have_rows('private_notes', $prepared['id'])) {
while (have_rows('private_notes', $prepared['id'])) {
the_row();
$user_id = absint(get_sub_field('user'));
if ($user_id === get_current_user_id()) {
return get_sub_field('private_note');
}
}
}
return '';
}
public static function update_private_note($value, \WP_POST $object, $field_name, $request, $object_type)
{
if (have_rows('private_notes', $object->ID)) {
while (have_rows('private_notes', $object->ID)) {
the_row();
$user_id = absint(get_sub_field('user'));
if ($user_id === get_current_user_id()) {
update_sub_field('private_note', esc_html($value));
break;
}
}
reset_rows();
} else {
add_row('private_notes', [
'user' => absint(get_current_user_id()),
'private_note' => esc_html($value),
], $object->ID);
}
}
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