prepareEvents() returns instead of continuing when a row has no date field, emptying the whole calendar
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<h3>Problem/Motivation</h3>
<p><code>FullCalendar::prepareEvents()</code> collects date fields inside the<br>
loop over the view's result rows:</p>
<pre><pre>foreach ($this->view->result as $delta => $row) {<br> …<br> // If there are no date fields, return.<br> if (empty($date_fields)) {<br> return $events;<br> }</pre></pre><p><code>src/Plugin/views/style/FullCalendar.php</code>, line 470 on<br>
<code>4.0.x</code>.</p>
<p>That <code>return</code> sits inside the row loop, so the first row without a<br>
date value abandons every remaining row. When it is the first row,<br>
<code>$events</code> is still empty and the calendar renders with no Drupal<br>
events at all — silently, with nothing in the logs and no message to the site<br>
builder.</p>
<p>Any calendar view whose result set can contain a row without a date value is<br>
affected. That is not an exotic configuration: a view over content with no<br>
bundle filter, an entity whose date field is optional and left empty, or a<br>
translation without the field populated will all do it.</p>
<p>The comment above the check reads "If there are no date fields,<br>
return", so the intent seems to have been a per-row guard.<br>
<code>continue</code> is what that intent needs; <code>return</code> makes it a<br>
per-view guard driven by whichever row happens to sort first.</p>
<p>Verified against <code>4.0.x</code> HEAD <code>68b7901</code> and against the<br>
released <code>4.0.0-rc1</code>. Present in both.</p>
<h3>Steps to reproduce</h3>
<ol>
<li>Create a content type <code>event</code> with a required date range<br>
field.</li>
<li>Add seven published <code>event</code> nodes with dates in the current<br>
month.</li>
<li>Create a view of Content, format FullCalendar, with the date field added<br>
as a view field. Do not filter on the bundle.</li>
<li>Make sure at least one published node of another type exists — a standard<br>
<code>page</code> from a fresh install is enough.</li>
<li>Visit the view.</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Expected:</strong> the seven dated nodes appear on the calendar.<br><br>
<strong>Actual:</strong> the calendar is empty. <code>$view->result</code><br>
holds all eight rows, but <code>prepareEvents()</code> returns on the dateless<br>
one.</p>
<p>Adding a filter on the <code>event</code> bundle makes all seven appear,<br>
which confirms the dateless row is the trigger rather than anything about the<br>
dated ones.</p>
<h3>Proposed resolution</h3>
<p>Change the <code>return</code> to <code>continue</code>, so a row without a<br>
usable date is skipped and the remaining rows are still processed.</p>
<pre><pre>- // If there are no date fields, return.<br>+ // If this row has no date fields, skip it and keep going.<br> if (empty($date_fields)) {<br>- return $events;<br>+ continue;<br> }</pre></pre><h3>Remaining tasks</h3>
<p>A test covering a mixed result set — one dated row and one dateless row —<br>
would pin the behaviour, since the current tests appear to use uniformly dated<br>
fixtures.</p>
<h3>Unrelated observation, same file</h3>
<p><code>getExposedDates()</code> (line 668 on <code>4.0.x</code>) uses<br>
<code>drupal_static(__METHOD__, [])</code> keyed only by<br>
<code>$field_name</code>, not by view or display. Two calendars on one page<br>
using the same date field with different exposed input would share a min/max<br>
window. This is the same class of defect as the<br>
<code>prepareSettings()</code> static that was already removed on<br>
<code>4.0.x</code>. Happy to open it separately if preferred.</p>
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