Generate CCK fields when generating nodes

Well I already rolled a patch and made the changes to CCK before seeing what you had posted here. I'll post what I have here and to CCK so you can see it. What's the advantage of using pre_save over a regular hook? We talked in the other issue about creating this in a way that another module can provide the hook if the field module does not. That seems more complicated if we use pre_save, but maybe it's not.

Anyway, here's what I had come up with which works fine (and I also have uncommitted code in the Date module to generate random dates using this method).

Actually this wouldn't be that hard to change after all. I just need to pull the devel_generate_fields() function into CCK and trigger it from the pre_save op. Then I can leave the hooks as hooks so other modules can supply code if the hook does not exist.

Attached is a patch. I left the current function in there as a wrapper so things will work until you make whatever changes you want to the devel module and I'm setting up CCK to work either from that function or from the pre_save op.

There is one other change in there -- adding a format argument to devel_create_content() so I can store both a value and a format for the textarea field.

Well that was almost right, but I left out the content function, so here's another try.

And I went ahead and committed the complimentary code in CCK and in Date. I can tweak that code later to match whatever method you come up with, but I wanted to get the basic code to generate new field values committed before I lost all that work :)

Looks right to me. I found some more changes to make on the CCK side and then tested a number of different kinds of fields and it all seems to be working right.

Thanks!

Here's a small patch to make this work in D5. I'm committing the matching code on the CCK side for this to work.