Thanks for the quick fix! Do you know when the next scheduled release will
be for web2py? If it's not soon, what is the best practice for cloning the
repository into an existing web2py source-download?

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Massimo Di Pierro <
massimo.dipie...@gmail.com> wrote:

> It is a bug in grid. I just pushed a new version on github that allows you
> to do SQLFORM.grid(...,showblob=True)
>
>
> On Monday, 20 March 2017 13:52:53 UTC-5, Jordan Myers wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to display a Field that has type 'blob' in a SQLFORM.grid.
>> The data is NOT user-uploaded, thus I cannot use the typical uploadfield +
>> request.download pattern. I am using blob because I need to store important
>> algorithm-generated data that is too large to fit in the 'text' field type.
>> I would like it to display a link to a handler.
>>
>> I tried a simple test case model
>>
>>
>> db.define_table('blob_test',
>>                 Field('blob_field', 'blob', readable=True,
>>                       represent=lambda value, row: A('link', 
>> _href=URL('handler', args=[row.id]))
>>                       )
>>                 )
>>
>>
>> #and in the controller:
>>
>> def blob_grid():
>>     response.view = 'generic.html'
>>     grid = SQLFORM.grid(db.blob_test.id > 0)
>>     return dict(grid=grid)
>>
>>
>> The result is that the controller does not display the link, and indeed the 
>> entire column is overtaken by the default view/edit/delete buttons provided 
>> by grid.
>>
>>
>> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-WzURnD6J-gg/WNAkBA3OXRI/AAAAAAAAATw/e-ft-MN-wZ0mpln8k5CiONkzBslFepsxgCLcB/s1600/blob_grid.png>
>>
>>
>> Interestingly, the appadmin display of the table does have the represent 
>> link as intended.
>>
>>
>> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zHvXKP8aHWM/WNAkJuVI3XI/AAAAAAAAAT0/BDeM8atNGksOBSoQv9G43Cdbgr_FVBvwwCLcB/s1600/blob_admin.png>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> How can I have this representation work for SQLFORM.grid? Thanks.
>>
>>
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