Hi there,
The issue you have is that you are mixing a fully normalized solution and
the web2py "short-cut".
In the table you have defined db.component_package_association.component_id
as a single integer, but the validator is giving the field multiple values.
The easy option is to delete the component_package_association table and
have something like this:
db.define_table('package',
Field('components','list:reference component'),
Field('another_field'),
format='%(another_field)s'
)
That way multiple references will be handled automatically in forms and
they are transparent to the DAL. See the list_reference example in chapter
6 of the book.
On Wednesday, December 10, 2014 5:50:42 AM UTC+13, Jan Beilicke wrote:
>
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> since a couple of days I am trying to implement a *normalized
> many-to-many model* that can be managed using a single form consisting of
> a couple of fields from one table and a multiple select drop-down list
> containing references to an intersection table.
>
> My problem is an exception that is thrown when the form is validated after
> submit:
>
> int() argument must be a string or a number, not 'list'
>
> The exception is caused by a list of reference ids defined by selected
> options in the drop-down list.
>
> A way to circument this exception might be to denormalize the intersection
> table by using the field type list:reference which I want to avoid for
> various reasons.
>
> I have created a similar model for demonstration purposes, where the
> entity package has one or many components:
>
> db.define_table('component',
> Field('some_field'),
> format='%(some_field)s'
> )
>
> db.define_table('package',
> Field('another_field'),
> format='%(another_field)s'
> )
>
> db.define_table('component_package_association',
> Field('component_id', 'reference component'),
> Field('package_id', 'reference package'))
>
> db.component_package_association.component_id.requires = IS_IN_DB(
> db, 'component.id', '%(some_field)s', multiple=True)
>
> And the controller:
>
> def manage_packages():
> if request.args(0) == 'new' and request.args(1) == 'package':
> form = SQLFORM.factory(db.package,
> db.component_package_association)
>
> if form.process().accepted:
> # Code to store the new package and associations to
> components
> # ...
> response.flash = 'Package successfully created.'
>
> content = form
> else:
> content = SQLFORM.grid(db.package)
>
> return dict(content=content)
>
> I did some research in the web2py-users ML and some search engines but
> could not find a way to tackle this issue.
>
> Following a couple of ideas for which I am thankful to get helpful
> comments and advice:
>
> 1. Create a custom validator for the form or
> 2. Disable form.process().accepted or
> 3. Disable the validation for the specific field
> 4. Something completely different
>
> I try to avoid options 2 and 3.
>
> Thank you for your time!
>
> //jotbe
>
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