Asynchronously fetch options (or dynamic select options in general)

[dtaub]

I couldn't find an issue for this or anything in the docs, but is there any way to have a field asynchronously fetch the options for a select dropdown?

I'm sure actually making http requests would be outside the scope of this library but is there any way to do something along the lines of giving a field a promise that resolves to an array of options? Or even synchronously passing a dynamic list of options that are not known when creating the schema?

[edi9999]

I don't think that is possible to do right now.

You can already change the form or schema in real time, to do that, just update the schema/uiSchema and rerender the component, all of the form values will be kept

[lmeerwood]

Has there been any progress on this?

[shannonjohnstone]

Im also interested to know if there has any been progress in this area?

[hiitskiran]

select drown options loading from an external source is pretty common for any UI application, is this support available yet as this issue was created long back?

[gagandeep]

I am also interested. Now, I have to explore other libraries.

[epicfaace]

This hasn't been built into the core library at the moment (though would welcome a PR), but you can do this with a custom field. Here's an example:

https://github.com/epicfaace/CFF/blob/9add15f2ce49480c10ecae508ddb920f6e64b7a2/scripts/src/form/form_widgets/AutoPopulateField.tsx

http://docs.chinmayamission.com/cff/uischema/fields/auto-populate/

[jordan-aye]

This hasn't been built into the core library at the moment (though would welcome a PR), but you can do this with a custom field. Here's an example:

https://github.com/epicfaace/CFF/blob/9add15f2ce49480c10ecae508ddb920f6e64b7a2/scripts/src/form/form_widgets/AutoPopulateField.tsx

http://docs.chinmayamission.com/cff/uischema/fields/auto-populate/

Anyone has a sandbox example of this? 🐱

[GFoley83]

This hasn't been built into the core library at the moment (though would welcome a PR), but you can do this with a custom field. Here's an example:

https://github.com/epicfaace/CFF/blob/9add15f2ce49480c10ecae508ddb920f6e64b7a2/scripts/src/form/form_widgets/AutoPopulateField.tsx

http://docs.chinmayamission.com/cff/uischema/fields/auto-populate/

@epicfaace It seems like there's a heap of functionality in the Chinmayamission/CFF repo that would be really really useful in react-jsonschema-form core. Is there a good reason why you haven't pulled it in given you're involved in both projects?

[epicfaace]

It takes time to do that. Feel free to do it if you'd like though.