Customer::Gender is required but might be empty if removed from form

[kochen]

Customer::Gender is a required field:

            <options>
                <option name="default">u</option>
            </options>
        </field>

which has a default value u.

but when being removed (i.e not needed for the shop) from .../vendor/sylius/sylius/src/Sylius/Bundle/ShopBundle/Resources/views/Account/profileUpdate.html.twig:
<div class="field">{{ form_row(form.gender) }}</div>
you get an error saying:

This issue seem to occur as well from the API - @psihius could you confirm/elaborate?

[pjedrzejewski]

@kochen this behavior is actually correct. If you remove this field from template, you should also remove it from the form. (using form type extension)

[kochen]

@pjedrzejewski that's true, but it'd also require you to remove the attribute from the DB.
what I'm trying to do here is properly set the default value of u for the case where not value is provided.

[pjedrzejewski]

@kochen but this should happen on the Customer object already in the constructor here:

Sylius/src/Sylius/Component/Customer/Model/Customer.php

Line 58 in 12ce073

protected $gender = CustomerInterface::UNKNOWN_GENDER;

[kochen]

@pjedrzejewski yes, but it doesn't happen :)

[itinance]

I don't know why this issue was closed although the provided PR is still unmerged.

However, i've found the following fixes:

a) write an own GenderType according to the draft of @kochen (https://github.com/kochen/Sylius/blob/36099fbbc6f70484595b1e0a082031b548fafc6b/src/Sylius/Bundle/CustomerBundle/Form/Type/GenderType.php#L37)

b) override the "gender"-type like this:

->add('gender', HiddenType::class, array(
                'data' => CustomerInterface::UNKNOWN_GENDER,
            ))