Thanks for the explanation. It stiil doesn't add records to the table. Is there any where I can see the error? on the admin there are no errors, and not on the console where i post. Thanks.
On Thursday, January 30, 2014 7:00:32 PM UTC+2, Anthony wrote: > > On Thursday, January 30, 2014 10:33:19 AM UTC-5, Avi A wrote: >> >> Sorry for the "not working", I thought my mistake would be obvious. >> > > Describing the specific failure often makes it easier to home in on the > source of the problem. > > >> First line: does it mean that this "if" statement knows to search the >> auth.user records till it finds a match? >> > > Yes, it's simply a query to see if any auth_user records contain an > api_key that matches the one submitted. You were doing this query in > Python, when it is far more efficient to have the database do it for you > (particularly if you create a database index on the api_key field). > > >> and what is the .count() for? >> > > When doing the query, there is no need to return the matching records -- > you just need to know whether any such records exist. So, it is more > efficient just to get a count of the records (if the count is 0, there are > no matching records). > > >> Second line: >> t._filter_fields(**post_params) >> Should work assuming the key on the url params matches exactly the field >> name on the table? >> > > Yes, that assumes the URL parameters match the field names of the table. > Note, ._filter_fields() simply removes any keys from the dictionary that > don't match any of the field names in the table (in this case, it would > remove the api_key key, since that's not part of the db table). You could > also manually remove any extra fields from the dictionary. For example: > > if db(db.auth_user.api_key == post_params.pop('api_key')).count(): > return t.validate_and_insert(**post_params) > > post_params.pop('api_key') extracts the api_key value from post_params and > then removes that key/value from post_params, leaving only the keys > associated with fields in the db table. > > Anthony > -- 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 web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.