FIO-9480: establish parent references before subform creation (5.0.x) #5953
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Link to Jira Ticket
https://formio.atlassian.net/browse/FIO-9480
Description
Sometimes a deeply nested child needs state or data from a distant parent, and needs to crawl up the reference tree to get it. E.g. a calculated value that looks like
Previously these references were not stable, because they were being instantiated after subForm creation. This PR fixes this behavior so that they are passed along with the creation options, and those references will be stable from the start.
Breaking Changes / Backwards Compatibility
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Dependencies
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How has this PR been tested?
NOTE: tests seem to be broken in the 5.0.x branch.
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