Well, by now I have tested the heck out of this thing, and the ill behavior has gone away and I can't get it to come back.....
My natural curiosity wants to know why but, in any case, good riddance! On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 4:12 PM, REM <[email protected]> wrote: > In further exploration, there's some inconsistencies in behavior. > Sometimes it triggers the error and sometimes it doesn't. I haven't yet > figured out what the determining factor is. > > > > On Tuesday, September 17, 2013 4:02:53 PM UTC-4, REM wrote: >> >> Actually, in checking out this solution, there is no change. It >> *still*always triggers the validator. >> >> What could be causing this? >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, September 17, 2013 2:56:16 PM UTC-4, Anthony wrote: >>> >>> requires=IS_EMPTY_OR([IS_**LENGTH(maxsize=200), >>> IS_MATCH('^[a-zA-Z0-9\s\#\.\$**\-\_]+$',error_message >>> ='Character Not Allowed.')]) >>> >>> >>> Anthony >>> >>> On Tuesday, September 17, 2013 2:44:14 PM UTC-4, REM wrote: >>>> >>>> I have a form field which is not required, but when it is submitted >>>> with data, I want the data to be validated. The problem is, I get the >>>> validator triggering when the form is submitted with no value in that >>>> field. I want it to wait until there's data in there to validate it and >>>> ignore it if blank. I thought I could get this behavior with required=False >>>> and then using requires= validators, but it is failing the validation every >>>> time when there's no data in the field. How do you get it to validate data >>>> that's present and ignore blanks? >>>> >>>> The field in question is in the db.py as follows: >>>> >>>> Field('special_code1', 'string', length=200, required=False, >>>> label='Special >>>> Code 1', >>>> requires=[IS_LENGTH(maxsize=2**00), >>>> IS_MATCH('^[a-zA-Z0-9\s\#\.\$**\-\_]+$',error_message >>>> ='Character Not Allowed.')] >>>> ), >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> There are no other controllers acting on this data, and no combination >>>> of anything I try above gets me what I want. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/web2py/HiTi-ofCemA/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- 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.
