There is validate_and_insert() and validate_and_update(), never use them but was planning to... So I don't know if they return error that you could exploit in angular and the retroaction can become weird I don't know you may have a read about those methodes
Richard On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Niphlod <[email protected]> wrote: > on the widgets part, nobody did anything (or, in other words, even if it > did, he/she didn't share with us). > On the "serialize values as json" shouldn't be hard, but you must hook up > your angular model with the data. Same thing goes for errors. > On the "receive a json string and use those values to insert into a table" > web2py trunk parses whatever valid json POSTed values (Content-Type: > application/json) and fills up request.vars with the decoded json dict. > > > On Wednesday, April 17, 2013 10:15:12 PM UTC+2, RHC wrote: >> >> I have recently been exploring the possibilities of AngularJS and so far >> it looks like a great framework for interactive forms and general data >> editing. >> >> I would love to use it with web2py as I love the way web2py works and >> much prefer python to javascript :-) >> >> My main concern is that web2py's form validation and security features >> are really useful but would clash with the angular way of doing things. It >> seems to me that the way to get the two working together would be to create >> an alternative to FORM/SQLFORM/CRUD that instead of generating HTML would >> generate a json object containing all the field details and data for >> angular to then use to build the form or whatever interface is required. >> >> I would like to have a go at this but I know a lot gets done behind the >> scenes to generate forms and then validate the forms and generate error >> messages where validation fails. I don't want to try and recreate all these >> features from scratch so I'm thinking that maybe it is possible to reuse >> various methods and functions already used by the current form methods to >> do the same thing but generate json instead of HTML. What I would like to >> do is to be able to send a set of data (or a blank template) to the client >> using json and then have this data all posted back to web2py as json and >> have web2py validate this data and update/insert the relevant records.This >> data could be a single record, or a record and many linked records from >> another table. >> >> Does this sound feasible to those who know a bit more about how all these >> form methods work behind the scenes? Can anyone give me a few pointers? >> Even better has anyone already tackled this challenge who can share their >> work? It seems to me that this kind of feature could be very useful for the >> growing number of javascript front end frameworks available. >> >> Thanks. >> > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
