Problem/Motivation
Latest update prevented the population of fields using the conventions outlined in the documentation.
After examining the code I managed to isolate it to the value container in the $limited_types array.
I am not sure what container does in this context, I searched the HTML of the page that I am working on and the only time the word container appears is part of a class involving Date's date picker.
I am not sure how to continue to troubleshoot this with regards to a patch contribution as I am not completely sure what the code in the _prepopulate_request_walk function is doing because it doesn't have a lot of comments.
If there was an explanation available as to what container refers to I might be able to produce a patch that fixes this.
Proposed resolution
Commenting out container on line 60 resolved the issue.
Comments
Comment #2
clemens.tolboomThis is a 'duplicate' of #2679839: Container elements and their children cannot be prepopulated in the 7.x-2.1 security update release which tries to solve it.