Populating a form with multiple associated models

[woram]

I am trying to take advantage of Sencha Touch 2's ability to handle associated models. In my case, suppose I have a Selection and Book: Selection <<--> Book. So, I have a record that could look like this:

{
    id: 123,
    position: 1,
    book: {
        title: 'War and Peace'
    }
}

Suppose I want to populate a FormPanel with a Selection record. When it's a flat record, there's lots of documentation about this on the Internet, and I've gotten it to work easily:

myFormPanel.setRecord(record);

When a form covers two associated models at once, this no longer works. A field dedicated to, say, book.title remains empty:

{
    xtype: 'textfield',
    name: 'title', // also tried 'book.title'
    label: 'Title'
}

Is there a way to populate Sencha Touch 2 forms automatically when the record is not flat? I could, of course, create a flat model specifically for this form, but that sort of defeats the purpose.
If there's no automated way, what's the next best alternative? Individually fetching fields from the FormPanel and setting their values?

[mitchellsimoens]

You won't be able to do it that way. What you will need to do is create a flat object using the getters from the association so you get something like

{
    firstname : '....',
    lastname : '....'
}

[woram]

You won't be able to do it that way. What you will need to do is create a flat object using the getters from the association

I'm not sure what to do with such an object. setRecord() requires a Record object derived from a model. Is there a way I'm not aware of to apply a generic object's data to a FormPanel?

[mitchellsimoens]

Use setValues method

[woram]

Oh, wow! I wish I had known about this weeks ago. Thanks.