Array bug with additionalItems and empty items
#3791 opened on Jul 27, 2023
Description
Prerequisites
- I have searched the existing issues
- I understand that providing a SSCCE example is tremendously useful to the maintainers.
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What theme are you using?
core
Version
5.x
Current Behavior
The additionalItems keyword allows one to provide a fixed-length array but allow the user the ability to add on to the end of it. However, this does not work if the fixed-length array is empty. Instead, the form appears to render but the "+" button to add additional items to the array does not work.
Broken Example with Empty Items
The behavior of the additionalItems array should look almost identical (apart from a little extra spacing) to the case where the fixed-length array has one null element with no other information to render:
Working Example with One Item
Of course, there is a workaround, which is to move the array item definition in additionalItems into items, since we are no longer really making use of that fixed-length array when it is empty. It would still be preferable if this worked as expected, especially when working with fixed-length arrays of varying lengths -- having to specially handle the case of an array of length 0 adds unnecessary additional complexity.