Replying to my own post. I just looked up Massimos previous answer. And the correct return policy is:
query1 = (db.auth_user.id == db.liked.liked_by); all_like = db(query1).select(db.auth_user.first_name); items = [dict(name = row.first_name) for row in all_like] db(db.post.id==id).update(reported=False, like_it=True,banned=False) response.js = "$('#post-%d > div:first-child').addClass('like_it')"%id #like_message = 'Liked' return dict(like_message = 'liked', items = [dict(name = row.first_name) for row in all_like]) On Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at 9:01:46 AM UTC-5, Ron Chatterjee wrote: > > I am looking at Massimo's my_forum app. in function definition I have: > > > def do(): > > id, method = request.args(0,cast=int), request.args(1) > > if method == 'report': > > db(db.post.id==id).update(reported=True) > > return 'reported' > > if method == 'like_it' and (DEBUG or > auth.has_membership('moderators')): > > like = db.liked.insert(liked_by=auth.user.id) > > query1 = (db.auth_user.id == db.liked.liked_by); > > all_likes = db(query1).select(db.auth_user.first_name); > > db(db.post.id==id).update(reported=False, > like_it=True,banned=False) > > return 'liked' > > > Basically, its a facebook like "like" that I want to replicate. > > > Question. > > > How to return the pydal field object from controller along with the string > 'liked'. > > > all likes is : <pydal.objects.Field object at 0x0000000009D8E438> > > > My model file is: > > db.define_table('liked', > Field('thread', 'reference thread'), > Field('liked_on', 'datetime', default=request.now, > readable=False, writable=False), > Field('liked_by', 'reference auth_user', readable=False, > writable=False)) > > > > > > -- 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/d/optout.