For now, if you want to do a migration, all you have to do is loop through
the records and put a pipe character ("|") before and after each string.
Perhaps this can be automated -- you can submit an issue on Google Code.
Anthony
On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 1:21:52 AM UTC-5, User wrote:
>
> It appears it will leave the string data that exists in the string field
> alone in the database, however web2py will interpret it such that the first
> and last character are truncated. For example:
>
> "hello" -> "ell"
>
> "something" -> "omethin"
>
> "world" -> "orl"
> As soon as you add another list item to the string, then web2py
> will overwrite the original string's first and last characters with pipe
> characters in the database in addition to adding the new item.
>
> Migration back from list:string to string will preserve whatever
> list:string data is there (in the web2py representation format).
>
> "hello", "world" -> "|hello|world|"
>
> "one", "two" -> "|one|two|"
>
> Would it make sense for the migration process to handle this more
> gracefully?
>
>
> On Monday, January 13, 2014 3:34:47 PM UTC-5, User wrote:
>
>> Does a migration from a 'string' field to a 'list:string' field preserve
>> string data that is already in the database and convert it to the format
>> required by list:string?
>>
>
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