Hi Jeff,
I noticed this too but I forgot to post about it.
My solution was to define specific auto generation for each table:
patterns = [':auto[person]',':auto[pet]']
but maybe this needs to be fixed in the code or in the book.
Regards,
Denes
On Monday, December 31, 2012 2:39:43 AM UTC-5, Jeff Kusi wrote:
>
> I followed the example for the REST API (multiple times actually).
> However I keep getting *"**no matching pattern"* every time.
> In fact it looks like the auto pattern is not generating because when I
> navigate to
> api/patterns.json, I see
>
> {"content": "auto"}
>
> instead of the beautiful rendering of all my table patterns.
>
> Here are the sample tables I tested with
> db.define_table('person',Field('name'),Field('info'))
> db.define_table('pet',Field('owner',db.person),Field('name'),Field('info'))
>
> Here's my api code
>
> @request.restful()
> def api():
> response.view = 'generic.'+request.extension
> def GET(*args,**vars):
> patterns = 'auto'
> parser = db.parse_as_rest(patterns,args,vars)
> if parser.status == 200:
> return dict(content=parser.response)
> else:
> raise HTTP(parser.status,parser.error)
> def POST(table_name,**vars):
> return db[table_name].validate_and_insert(**vars)
> def PUT(table_name,record_id,**vars):
> return db(db[table_name]._id==record_id).update(**vars)
> def DELETE(table_name,record_id):
> return db(db[table_name]._id==record_id).delete()
> return locals()
>
>
> web2py version 2.3.2 (2012-12-17 15:03:30) stable
> python version 2.7
>
> Any help please?
>
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