Re: [web2py] DAL's virtual fields

2011-11-21 Thread Dmitry Vukolov
That actually works! Many thanks for the suggestion. I wish that could be in the book if that's the recommended approach. Dmitry

Re: [web2py] DAL's virtual fields

2011-11-21 Thread Bruno Rocha
maybe as a static method ( I did not tested, but may works On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Dmitry Vukolov wrote: > class MyVirtualFields(object): > def total_price(self): > return self.support_function(self.item.unit_price, > self.item.quantity) @*staticmethod* def sup

[web2py] DAL's virtual fields

2011-11-21 Thread Dmitry Vukolov
In the Official web2py Book I read about DAL's Virtual Fields that: "...each method of the class that takes a single argument (self) is a new virtual field." It seems however that any function of the class is treated as a new field and called to calculate its value. As an example I added a supp