So I thought I'd promote the latest dev version of my Field Complete module to a release candidate yesterday. There were two reasons for this: (a) it's pretty solid, and (b) people are more likely to use it if it's out of dev.
It wasn't a mistake. Within a couple of hours I had a new bug report: Doesn't work with Profile2.
Which surprised me a lot, why on earth would it not work with a popular entity-based module? My code is very standard and does nothing naughty.
The answer, of course, is that Profile2 is naughty. Or at least it's non-standard. I'm not going to go into detail but they bypassed standard edit-form processing and do odd awkward things with the display URL. So my form interceptions don't get a chance to work and the completeness progress bar (and the Incomplete fields block) can't work.
What to do?
On the one hand I don't see why I should hack my code to work with something non-standard. On the other, Profile2 is a very popular module and using Field Completeness with it is a natural thing to do. And I want people to use my module.
So I spent a couple of hours figuring out the nasty that Profile2 does and modifying my code to cope with it. It wasn't too horrible, but I can't say I enjoyed it as a process. My nice clean code now has hacks in it.
Oh well.
