defaultValue function values possibly broken

Bug report

Describe the bug

Ok, so the docs say fields can take a defaultValue key as a string or function. Strings work fine, but I can’t seem to get functions to do anything at all.

I notice they aren’t passed to the Admin UI, so it makes sense they wouldn’t resolve and display when creating an item, but even if you simply save a field with no value the defaultValue function is never called.

Testing using this config in the TODO demo:

keystone.createList('Todo', {
  schemaDoc: 'A list of things which need to be done',
  fields: {
    name: {
      type: Text,
      schemaDoc: 'This is the thing you need to do',
      isRequired: true,
      defaultValue: () => { return 'test text' },
    },
  },
});

List._resolveDefaults is where I would expect the default function to be resolved server-side, but getDefaultValue is only called for id since name has a null value already.

[famel]

Thanx - it seems so. It also seems that it works “on-the-fly” if it is set isRequired:false during creation (without displayed on the creation form)

[reubano]

Not sure why this isn’t considered a bug. So should the docs be updated to say that defaultValue can only be a scalar?