fwiw, we use formencode heavily. The facilities for encoding and decoding nested form variable names are really really well designed.
iain On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Chris McDonough <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 23:18 -0800, uday wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestion. Is it really that hard to implement this? > > I work with rails in my day job, it has this feature which reduces lot > > of verbose code in controllers > > and also it makes form handling so easy. > > There are a lot of form libraries for Python that offer similar features > (formencode, deform, toscawidgets, formish, and so forth). > > There is also http://pypi.python.org/pypi/repoze.monty/0.1 which handles > stuff like this. > > If none of these are sufficent, patches, as always, are accepted. > > - C > > > > > > > > On Nov 15, 12:04 am, Gael Pasgrimaud <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Michael Merickel <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > uday, I think you'll want to just prefix your values, then you can > iterate > > > > over the POST and turn it into a dictionary: > > > > <input name="profile-name"/> > > > > <input name="profile-email"/> > > > > profile = {} > > > > for k in request.POST.keys(): > > > > if k.startswith('profile-'): > > > > profile[k[len('profile-'):]] = request.POST.get(k) > > > > name = profile.get('name', 'Bob') > > > > > > Or use a form library. FormAlchemy allow to use a prefix and I guess > > > that deform and other libraries have way to do that too. > > > If you need this kind of structure that mean that you want to build > > > complex forms. Build html forms and validation stuff by hand is not > > > really fun and not very efficient. > > > > > > My 2c. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Chris McDonough <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > >> On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 13:27 -0500, Chris McDonough wrote: > > > >> > On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 12:21 -0600, Michael Merickel wrote: > > > >> > > The "key[subkey]" syntax is not supported in WebOb (I think). > > > > > > >> > Yeah, sorry. I meant that when you do this in a form: > > > > > > >> > <input type="text" name="foo"></input> > > > >> > <input type="text" name="foo"></input> > > > > > > >> > You can do in a view: > > > > > > >> > request.getall('foo') > > > > > > >> Sorry, rather: > > > > > > >> request.POST.getall('foo') > > > > > > >> > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Chris McDonough < > [email protected]> > > > >> > > wrote: > > > >> > > On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 09:28 -0800, Mengu wrote: > > > >> > > > actually, pylons had this. it was > > > >> > > request.params.getall('param') but > > > >> > > > pyramid does not support this. > > > > > > >> > > It does, actually. It's a WebOb feature (both Pyramid > and > > > >> > > Pylons use > > > >> > > WebOb). > > > > > > >> > > - C > > > > > > >> > > > > > > >> > > > On Nov 14, 6:12 pm, Gael Pasgrimaud <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> > > > > Hi, > > > >> > > > > > > > >> > > > > Are you coming from php ? :) > > > >> > > > > > > > >> > > > > WebOb does not handle arrays/hashes and I don't > think that > > > >> > > this is in > > > >> > > > > the current roadmap. > > > >> > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > >> > > > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 7:52 AM, uday < > [email protected]> > > > >> > > wrote: > > > >> > > > > > Hi all, > > > >> > > > > > > > >> > > > > > I think it is more helpful if we can make form > fields > > > >> > > processing more > > > >> > > > > > convenient which can reduce verbosity in views. > > > >> > > > > > > > >> > > > > > for example assume profile model/table has fields > > > >> > > username and > > > >> > > > > > password > > > >> > > > > > in my form i write like <input type='text' > > > >> > > > > > name='profile[username']><input type='password' > > > >> > > > > > name='profile[password]'> > > > >> > > > > > > > >> > > > > > so when this form is submitted, it would be cool > if I > > > >> > > can just do > > > >> > > > > > like: request.POST['profile'] which gives me a > dict of > > > >> > > names and > > > >> > > > > > values specific to that model/table whatever > > > >> > > > > > so if I do request.POST['profile'] = {'username': > value > > > >> > > entered by > > > >> > > > > > user, 'password': value entered by user} > > > >> > > > > > > > >> > > > > > is this feature already there? or can it be > achieved in > > > >> > > any other way? > > > >> > > > > > is it related to webob or pyramid? > > > >> > > > > > I am ready to work on this to make it available in > > > >> > > pyramid, so please > > > >> > > > > > give me pointers to work on this. > > > >> > > > > > > > >> > > > > > -- > > > >> > > > > > You received this message because you are > subscribed to > > > >> > > the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. > > > >> > > > > > To post to this group, send email to > > > >> > > [email protected]. > > > >> > > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > >> > > [email protected]. > > > >> > > > > > For more options, visit this group > > > >> > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en. > > > >> > > > > > > > > > >> > > -- > > > >> > > You received this message because you are subscribed to > the > > > >> > > Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. > > > >> > > To post to this group, send email to > > > >> > > [email protected]. > > > >> > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > pylons-discuss > > > >> > > [email protected]. > > > >> > > For more options, visit this group at > > > >> > > http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en. > > > > > > >> > > -- > > > > > > >> > > Michael > > > > > > >> > > -- > > > >> > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the > Google > > > >> > > Groups "pylons-discuss" group. > > > >> > > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > > > >> > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to pylons-discuss > > > >> > > [email protected]. > > > >> > > For more options, visit this group at > > > >> > >http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en. > > > > > > >> > -- > > > >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > >> > Groups "pylons-discuss" group. > > > >> > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > > > >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > >> > [email protected]. > > > >> > For more options, visit this group at > > > >> >http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en. > > > > > > >> -- > > > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > > >> "pylons-discuss" group. > > > >> To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > > > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > >> [email protected]. > > > >> For more options, visit this group at > > > >>http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en. > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > Michael > > > > > > > -- > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > > > "pylons-discuss" group. > > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > . > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > [email protected]. > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en. > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "pylons-discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. 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