You are adding an element to the form DOM after the form has been
processed, so the new field will not get added to form.vars. However, in
your onvalidation function, you should be able to replace
form.vars.confirm_password with request.vars.confirm_password.
Anthony
On Friday, September 6, 2013 2:17:49 AM UTC-4, Mark Li wrote:
>
> Thanks Massimo. However, using
> auth.settings.profile_onvalidation.append(reauthenticate_user)
>
> has presented a problem of its own.
>
> I insert an extra field ("confirm_password"), to recheck in the
> onvalidation method. However, the form.vars does not contain
> form.vars.confirm_password, which worked before when I was using form.
> process(onvalidation=reauthenticate_user)
>
>
> Here is the relevant code:
>
> auth.settings.profile_onvalidation.append(reauthenticate_user)
> form=auth.profile()
> my_extra_element = TR(LABEL('Confirm Password'),INPUT(_type="password",
> _name="confirm_password", _class="string"))
> form[0].insert(-1,my_extra_element)
>
>
> def reauthenticate_user(form):
> #recheck the user password
> plain_password = form.vars.confirm_password
> if db.auth_user.password.validate(plain_password) != (db(db.auth_user.
> id==auth.user.id).select().first().password, None):
> form.errors.confirm_password = "Must enter correct password"
>
>
> The form passed into reauthenticate_user does not contain
> form.vars.confirm_password variable. Any ideas on why this happens now, but
> not before?
>
>
> On Thursday, September 5, 2013 4:46:11 PM UTC-7, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>>
>> This
>>
>> form = auth.profile()
>> form.process(onvalidation=reauthenticate_user)
>>
>> is wrong because auth.profile() already calls process inside. Instead you
>> should do:
>>
>> auth.settings.profile_onvalidation.append(reauthenticate_user)
>> form = auth.profile()
>>
>> On Thursday, 5 September 2013 17:42:18 UTC-5, Mark Li wrote:
>>>
>>> Currently I am creating a form with auth.profile()
>>>
>>> I have an onvalidation method to perform some extra checks.
>>>
>>> form = auth.profile()
>>> if form.process(onvalidation=reauthenticate_user).accepted:
>>>
>>> response.flash = "Changes Saved"
>>> elif form.errors:
>>>
>>> response.flash = "Errors found
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This prevented auth.user object from being updated, which auth.profile()
>>> usually takes care of.
>>>
>>> I also tried it with the following:
>>>
>>> form = auth.profile()
>>> form.process(onvalidation=reauthenticate_user)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> but the default accepts method that usually updates auth.user doesn't
>>> work either
>>>
>>> For now, I've just added the following to the accepted method:
>>> auth.user.update(db.auth_user._filter_fields(form.vars))
>>>
>>> But I'm interested in knowing if it's possible to specify an
>>> onvalidation method for auth.profile(), while still using the built-in
>>> accepts method.
>>>
>>
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