>>> db.define_table("mytable", Field("mytext", "text"))
<Table mytable (id,mytext)>
>>> db.mytable.insert(mytext=(1,2,3,4))
1L
>>> db.mytable[1].mytext
'|1|2|3|4|'
>>> print db.mytable[1].mytext
|1|2|3|4|I am trying to implement native support for json data type in dal (for databases like mongodb) and found this behavior Is this correct? I'd expect any non string object passed to .insert/.update for text fields to be converted to database string type (the one specified for the adapter), not a bar encoded string. Also, the default widget is completed with the bar encoded value. I think that some fields like text (anything but list:<type> in fact) should not bar encode input. My version is web2py Version 2.4.1-alpha.2+timestamp.2013.01.06.09.27.15 --
