To me, Francisco is rigth... In boolean case, I assume that IS_NOT_EMPTY() would make sure that field don't get a NULL value, so the database get hit with True or False value when you set IS_NOT_EMPTY() and default=False...
Richard On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 6:27 AM, Kiran Subbaraman <[email protected] > wrote: > I see this as IS_NOT_EMPTY() working correctly. > And why would you attach this validator to a checkbox/boolean field? Did > you also assign a default value of False? > Or you would need to check request.args for this field, and assign a false > if it is empty, before passing it along to the validator (again, not sure > what purpose the validator serves for this field). > > ________________________________________ > Kiran Subbaramanhttp://subbaraman.wordpress.com/about/ > > On Thu, 04-12-2014 4:46 PM, Francisco Ribeiro wrote: > > hi there, > I noticed that when I use the IS_NOT_EMPTY() validator on a boolean field > (i.e. a form checkbox) that it will not allow me to submit the form with > this field as "not checked" / "unticked". In my opinion, this is a wrong > interpretation of what is an empty value, since a checkbox can only > represent True or False and therefore it's never empty. The consequence of > using this behaviour for the IS_NOT_EMPTY*() validator is that we are > forcing users to choose True on a widget that is meant to provide a boolean > choice between True OR False, so the whole purpose of this user interface > widget, is lost. I only tested this with SQLFORM.factory() though. > > Am I missing something? > > Francisco > -- > 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/d/optout. > > > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.
