On 10 Jan 2013, at 10:34 AM, Kic <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear community,
>
> I have a strange problem reading in request.args .
> I was trying to implement the mechanism from the web2py book, chapter 29,
> SQLFORM.grid where it says:
>
> def manage():
> table = request.args(0)
> if not table in db.tables(): redirect(URL('error'))
> grid = SQLFORM.grid(db[table],args=request.args[:1])
> return locals()
>
> and put that into controller remote.
>
> I am always getting an error:
>
> TypeError: 'in <string>' requires string as left operand, not NoneType
You have a double puzzle here. Not only should table not be None (apparently),
but db.tables() should be a list, not a string.
>
> in the line
>
> if not table in db.tables(): redirect(URL('error'))
>
> because table was not assigned a value because request.args is always empty.
>
> My URL looks like this:
>
> https://hostname:3001/remote/manage/myarg
>
> so I would expect table to get the value 'myarg'.
>
> When I look into the full request, args is definitely empty. I only have
> slashes and letters in my URL after the port number, no spaces, special
> characters, nothing. Can anyone please help me and let me know what I am
> doing wrong? I downloaded the stable version today, so it should all be in
> order.
>
> I have the following in routes.py to remove the app name:
>
> routers = dict(
> BASE=dict(
> default_application='myapp',
> root_static='favicon.ico'
> ),
> )
> logging = 'debug'
>
> Thanks a lot and cheers,
>
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