[Bug] Undefined array key "attribute" while filtering

Bug report

What I did

This was working in Laravel 7 and backpack 4 after the upgrade this error apear when using basic filters As i debugged i see that “attribute” isnt present in applySearchLogicForColumn function line 85

The field in my controller is defined as following

        $this->crud->addField([
            'label' => 'Series', // Label for HTML form field
            'type'  => 'select',  // HTML element which displaying transactions
            'name'  => 'serie_id', // Table column which is FK for Customer table
            'entity' => 'serie', // Function (method) in Customer model which return transactions
            'attribute' => 'id', // Column which user see in select box
            'model' => 'Serie' // Model which contain FK
        ]);

Is it a bug in the latest version of Backpack?

Yes

Backpack, Laravel, PHP, DB version

When I run php artisan backpack:version the output is:

[rommeA]

@GoatFreezy I’m not using any filters (I didn’t purchase a PRO version yet). Anyways, I found a solution. Rename your columns and remove the ‘_id’ part. In my case I changed CRUD::column('company_id') to CRUD::column('company')

After that change everything works fine.

[pxpm]

@Nemachtilli @rommeA

Thanks for getting back here. I think I may have some idea where the error happens now I will have a look at it right way.

company and company_id in your cases should return exactly the same attributes from the relationship guessing process but somehow for you guys is not working properly.

I will investigate and get back to you guys. Also what you can do is defining 'attribute' => 'some_attribute_from_model_you_want_to_show_user'

Cheers