Cant use helper functions in Nova

[matthewjumpsoffbuildings]

Im trying to use the nova_get_regions() helper function within Nova itself, so I can pull in some region data and display it in a Field

For some reason this causes some kind of infinite loop, hang or crash? The page just times out. Is there a way I can access region or page data within Nova without this happening?

[KasparRosin]

Hey @matthewjumpsoffbuildings

I was unable to reproduce the issue with my nova. Could you provide more information/reproducible code example so we can take another look at this issue.

[matthewjumpsoffbuildings]

In one of my Templates, I had a static function regions() which simply called nova_get_regions() and returned that as an associative array. Then in my Field definitions I was trying to use some of the data from that (some colors set in a different region), to prefill the palette of a Color field.

[KasparRosin]

$regions = nova_get_regions();
$titles = collect($regions)->pluck('data')->pluck('et.title')->filter();
 return [
     Select::make('Titles')->options($titles),
]

I tried to reproduce the issue with code above but was unable to.
Could be an issue with the colour field/invalid data.

Closing this at the moment since i can't find a reason how this could be regions/page-manager issue.

[matthewjumpsoffbuildings]

It didn't matter if I actually implemented the retrieved values into the Color Field (or any other field). The mere presence of the nova_get_regions() in my Template was enough to crash the app.

I was actually caching the response of nova_get_regions() using Laravels Cache helper? Could that be the source of the issue?

Heres a rough example

class AppController extends Controller
{
	public static function regions()
	{
		return Cache::remember('regions', 60, function(){
			return nova_get_regions();
		});
	}

My Template

class Shortlist extends Template
{
	public static $type = 'region';
	public static $name = 'Shortlist';

	public function fields(Request $request): array
	{
		$regions = AppController::regions();
		return [ ...

Even if I do nothing with $regions, just having the call to nova_get_regions() in the static function in AppController is enough to break it

[KasparRosin]

My bad, this seems to be the problem indeed when calling nova_get_regions inside region template.
I was testing this inside a page template, which was the reason why i wasn't able to reproduce.

[matthewjumpsoffbuildings]

No worries. Right now Im getting around it by just using the Region::all() method to get all the regions data, that doesn't crash anything, though the data is formatted a bit differently than it would be from nova_get_regions()