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EngDbExport is calling Schema::FromParams(), which isn't defined in cSchema's clade family; trying to figure out what the correct call is.

• The function is defined in ToSchema, which is not a parent of Schema.
• It's expecting to initialize an object with a Go() function. The cSchema class does in fact have that method, and appears to be what we want, so the question is how to create or access the object.
• Apparently a cSchema object is normally created using InputRq::FromItemPiece().
• That, however, is for use when we're still parsing the input; this is a different context. We just want to pass it some already-known parameters.
• Therefore: we probably need to make a new alt-constructor.
• To investigate: what does FromItemPiece(ItemIface $oItem, PieceIface $oPiece) do? Tentative answer:
  • If $oPiece has a value, parses it with ParseInputArgs($oPiece->GetExtras()); otherwise, fetches a default. Either way, the value ends up in $sVal.
  • Calls WithItemValue($oItem,$sVal), which does:
    • $this->Item($oItem);
    • $this->ParseInputString($sValue);

2025-10-27

I think since the 8th I did a bunch of refactoring which now makes the solution obvious (it's probably what I had in mind when I did the refactoring): EngDbExport just needs to use the ToSchema iface/trait. This now works.