I am having trouble with a React form and managing the state properly. I have a time input field in a form (in a modal). The initial value is set as a state variable in getInitialState, and is passed in from a parent component. This in itself works fine.
The problem comes when I want to update the default start_time value through the parent component. The update itself happens in the parent component through setState start_time: new_time. However in my form, the default start_time value never changes, since it is only defined once in getInitialState.
I have tried to use componentWillUpdate to force a change in state through setState start_time: next_props.start_time, which did actually work, but it gave me Uncaught RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded errors.
So my question is, what's the correct way of updating state in this case? Am I thinking about this wrong somehow?
Current Code:
@ModalBody = React.createClass
getInitialState: ->
start_time: @props.start_time.format("HH:mm")
#works but takes long and causes:
#"Uncaught RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded"
componentWillUpdate: (next_props, next_state) ->
@setState(start_time: next_props.start_time.format("HH:mm"))
fieldChanged: (fieldName, event) ->
stateUpdate = {}
stateUpdate[fieldName] = event.target.value
@setState(stateUpdate)
render: ->
React.DOM.div
className: "modal-body"
React.DOM.form null,
React.createElement FormLabelInputField,
type: "time"
id: "start_time"
label_name: "Start Time"
value: @state.start_time
onChange: @fieldChanged.bind(null, "start_time")
@FormLabelInputField = React.createClass
render: ->
React.DOM.div
className: "form-group"
React.DOM.label
htmlFor: @props.id
@props.label_name + ": "
React.DOM.input
className: "form-control"
type: @props.type
id: @props.id
value: @props.value
onChange: @props.onChange