Cannot create own Custom Widget about bootstrap-ui HOT 4 CLOSED

The first error means that you have not (or incorrectly) added a template to the form helper, if you look in the linked book section, its done there using:

$this->Form->setTemplates([
    'autocomplete' => '<input type="autocomplete" name="{{name}}" {{attrs}} />'
]);

The second error means that you possibly did something like $this->Form->autocomplete() without an argument for the field name.

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Where exactly are you using $this->Form->addWidget()? It should work fine in templates, but it could break the form helper loading "order" when used in a view class.

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The first message in this thread was from the View class. I figured that was the case that it would break the Form helper.
However, there are issues trying to use it in templates as well.

in templates/Pages/home.php, putting

$this->Form->addWidget(
    'autocomplete',
    ['Autocomplete', 'text', 'label']
);

results in
Cannot find template named 'autocomplete'.

Whereas putting

$autocomplete = new AutocompleteWidget(
    $this->Form->getTemplater(),
    $this->Form->getWidgetLocator()->get('text'),
    $this->Form->getWidgetLocator()->get('label'),
);
$this->Form->addWidget('autocomplete', $autocomplete);

results in
Missing field name for FormHelper::getTemplater

I was thinking this was related to bootstrap-ui overwriting the templates. I have not tried this in a fresh project without the plugin

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Oh wow. I did not understand the docs correctly.

This widget would render the “autocomplete” string template, such as:

$this->Form->setTemplates([
    'autocomplete' => '<input type="autocomplete" name="{{name}}" {{attrs}} />'
]);

Made me think that simply doing the addWidget() would make CakePHP run the setTemplates()—not that I had to do it.

Works as intended.
Evidently not an issue with bootstrap-ui.

Thank you for your help. Closing.

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