On Sun, 2011-06-26 at 13:04 +0200, Vlad K. wrote:
> Thanks for your reply, but the problem is there is no
> request.POST("var"), there is request.POST("var[foo]") and at that point
> I don't know all the possible values of "foo". I solved with with a
> custom extraction function.
>
>
> While I'm at it, though, I wonder how others are solving the same
> problem. In PHP there are no sequences and dicts, just one associative
> array entity, so things like:
>
> var['a']['b'] = c
>
> are perfectly valid ad hoc, even if var was never used before, while
> Python would complain about missing key 'a' in dict var.
>
> So the actual problem is this. I have a form with a table. Columns are
> entity fields, rows are individual entities, just like in a database.
> For a PHP backend the form would be constructed as:
>
> <input type="text" name="foo[1]" value="123" />
> <input type="text" name="bar[1]" value="123" />
> <input type="text" name="baz[1]" value="123" />
> <input type="text" name="gah[1]" value="123" />
>
> with that being single row, entities having columns foo, bar, baz and
> gah, and the value in brackets is the row ID. One solution would be:
>
> <input type="text" name="foo" value="123" />
> <input type="text" name="bar" value="123" />
> <input type="text" name="baz" value="123" />
> <input type="text" name="gah" value="123" />
> <input type="hidden" name="id" value="1" />
>
> But I can't trust that the order given in the form is the same given
> through POST and especially the same reconstructed via WebOb's multidict
> entities (since Python's dicts are not ordered).
This is actually not quite true. See http://plope.com/peppercorn (which
might be something you'd want to use).
- C
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