On Monday, November 14, 2016 at 1:53:33 AM UTC-5, Brendan Barnwell wrote:
>
> The request.args object has a handy callable interface that allows
> specification of default value, type to coerce to, etc. As far as I can
> tell, the request.vars object has no such interface. Is this right? Why
> is this? What can I do if I want to access various vars that may or may
> not be present, with the same sort of fallback options as are available
> with args?
>
Keep in mind, your app is written in Python -- you are not limited to the
web2py API -- just use Python to achieve what you want. request.vars is a
dict-like object, so for example, you can do:
myvar = request.vars.get('myvar', 'my_default_value')
Anthony
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