ok, let me rephrase: what is your model ?
On Monday, September 9, 2013 6:07:46 PM UTC+2, Christopher Morlier wrote:
>
> At the moment, I am not explicitly providing any validators; so I expect
> only the default validators for my field types.
>
> Actually, the test where this arises is when I leave out a required field,
> and I get the error "Table: missing required field: time_stamp". Do the
> validators not check required fields?
>
>
> On Monday, September 9, 2013 10:28:56 AM UTC-5, Niphlod wrote:
>>
>> how do you specify the validators for your required fields ?
>>
>> On Monday, September 9, 2013 5:09:04 AM UTC+2, Christopher Morlier wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am implementing a RESTful API and have the following code in my POST
>>> handler:
>>>
>>> ret = db.recording.validate_and_insert(**fixed_fields)
>>> if ret.errors:
>>> raise HTTP(400, 'Validation failed: ' + str(ret.errors))
>>>
>>> url = URL('api', args=('recording',ret.id))
>>> response.headers['Location'] = url
>>> response.status = 201
>>> return dict(link=A('Recording ', ret.id, _href=url))
>>>
>>> On success, things work as expected. However, if I omit a required
>>> field, none of my code after validate_and_insert() is called. The client
>>> receives a HTTP 200 response as if all is well, albeit with an appropriate
>>> text description of the error.
>>>
>>> This is not how validate_and_insert() is described in chapter 6 of the
>>> book. Is there a reason it is different?
>>>
>>> As a work around I added a try-except block around the
>>> validate_and_insert() call, expecting an HTTP exception, but discovered it
>>> is actually a RuntimeError exception.
>>> Is this the recommended work around or is there a better solution?
>>>
>>> I browsed through the code, but it isn't clear to me where the exception
>>> is thrown. However, I believe I noticed two typos in the
>>> "validate_and_insert, validate_and_update" section:"ret.error" should be
>>> "ret.errors" and "res.updated" should be "ret.updated".
>>>
>>> BTW, I am running 2.5.1-stable+timestamp.2013.06.06.15.39.19 on
>>> Apache/2.2.16 (Debian)
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help,
>>> Chris
>>>
>>
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