Bi-directional information not imported properly with Migrate Packages

[m9n]

When I use the Migrate Packages component to export and import my pods, the Bi-directional information is lost from Relationship fields. It's repeatable:

• Create two Pods with a bi-directional Relationship with each other.
• Use Migrate Packages to export your Pods.
• Use WP Reset (plugin) to empty your database and start from a clean install.
• Enable Pods, and enable the Migrate Package component.
• Import your Pods from the export file you created.
• On the bi-directional relationship field, you'll find the bi-directional information is lost.

Workaround: Just make sure to add back your bi-directional settings in each of the Pods once you've imported. No biggie :)

[m9n]

Quick follow up - you only actually loose the bi-directional settings on one of the Pods. I suspect it's because they're created in sequence, and the second Pod hasn't yet been created.

[sc0ttkclark]

Bidirectional field config is storing the related field ID (post ID), so it's possible it's not exactly as you're seeing or perhaps it's a lucky import :)

[pglewis]

Is there an issue to be extracted here?

[sc0ttkclark]

I don't think we can solve this one pre-migration to storing keys in wp_podsrel instead of IDs.

[sc0ttkclark]

Just a note, this issue has existed as long as Bi-directional relationships and Packages have co-existed. (Even back to 1.x)

[jimtrue]

Brainstorming... keep track of the bidirectional relationship fields upon 'migrating' and as a last step, re-touch all those bidirectional fields to force the connection?

[vpfaulkner]

@jimtrue is this still a bug? Is there any way to export/import with bi-directional information retained?

[jimtrue]

@vpfaulkner: As @sc0ttkclark notes above this will not be able to be corrected until Fields Objects are a part of Pods.

In most cases, honestly, I've not had issues with this and I do package migrations constantly as part of replicating bugs from GitHub.

Typically once you visit one of the configurations it corrects itself in the other.