It was motivated bit the need to support bigint ID fields. This is for relational databases but, most importantly for non-relational ones. For example in mongodb the ID is a long UUID so we must map that into a ID. It comes up a long integer.
Yet using int instead of long was a problem also when bigint is not used in relational databases, in those cases where many records are added and removed. The ID may grow much more than the number of records you store. Massimo On Friday, 21 June 2013 08:06:15 UTC-5, Richard wrote: > > As explain Simone in case of passing id to javascript it requires > refactoring of app... Also it brake silently a javascript plugin integrated > manually as a field widget (not a custom widget). I gues I should have a > made some test to cover that, but I am still exploring how the best way to > manage test in web2py. > > But, I don't understand (didn't read search the mailing-list) what was the > motivation and the advantage of this change... Was it related to the bigint > change talked about several month ago? It was suppose to be default to > integer (what it was until now) and option in for bigint... > > Richard > > > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Alan Etkin <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> I think it is not in the change log and it is not acceptable.... >>> >> >> Hi Richard. Why it is not acceptable? Did the change break a documented >> feature? How? >> >> Perhaps you want to post an issue in the project page ( >> code.google.com/p/web2py/issues). If you do, please post as much >> information you have collected about the problem as you can including >> source code, error tracebacks, OS, db and web2py version, DAL adapter name >> and the section of the book with the documented feature that is not working. >> >> >> -- >> >> --- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> 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.
