Hello,

Using HTML::FormFu, I'm trying to understand the data-structure required to populate a form with 'select' element values (options).

When I dump (Data::Dumper) the FormFu object, I see that the object structure looks similar to the following:

    'name' => 'EmailDL',

    '_options' => [

             {

               'label_attributes' => {},

               'value' => 'm',

               'container_attributes' => {},

               'label' => 'Male',

               'attributes' => {}

             },

             {

               'label_attributes' => {},

               'value' => 'f',

               'container_attributes' => {},

               'label' => 'Female',

               'attributes' => {}

             }

           ],
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Seeing this, I figured that the way to structure $form_input (being that $form_input = \%cgivars) would be something like the following:

         'Firstname' => 'Faisal',
         'EmailDL' => [
                        {
                          'value' => 'myvalue',
                          'label' => 'mylabel'
                        }
                      ],
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However this doesn't seem to work. I've found that structuring $form_input correctly, and then issuing a $fu->default_values($form_input) to be simple and effective, except in this instance when I'm trying to include the select/options sub-structure.

So the question is: How should I structure 'EmailDL' above to correctly populate 'select' options when doing $fu->default_values($form_input) or $fu->process($form_input) ?

Any guidance on this would be appreciated, thanks!
-Bobby

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