Channel Entries API enforcing required custom fields from irrelevant channels

I’m trying to use the Channel Entries API to programmatically create some entries and seem to have run into a bug.

I’m attempting to insert entries into channel #5 (Counties). It has one custom field (#17).

There are two custom fields in the EE installation that are required: “Summary” from channel #4 and “City” from channel #6.

My code looks like this:

$data = array(
    'title' => 'some title',
    'channel_id' => 5, // necessary because of other bug that is marked fixed for next release
    'entry_date' => '2010-09-10 01:40 PM',
    'field_ft_17' => 'xhtml',
    'field_id_17' => 'whatever'
);

if ($this->EE->api_channel_entries->submit_new_entry(5, $data) === FALSE)
{
    show_error('An Error Occurred Creating the Entry');
}

A print_r of the errors set by the API looks like this:

Array ( 
    [Summary] => The following field is required: 
    [City] => The following field is required: 
)

The culprit appears to be the following code in Api_channel_entries.php, function _check_for_data_errors, roughly line 1125:

// Required and custom fields
        
$this->EE->db->select('field_id, field_label, field_type, field_required');
$query = $this->EE->db->get('channel_fields');

Seems like the solution would be to filter that database select on the current channel’s assigned field group.

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