I don't mean to set the length, i just wanted to know the DAL behavior behind the scene. So, DAL translate 'string:list' to a list in databases that natively support lists and to a TEXT field on normal relational databases and hence set the length of the text field to the default ?
2017-11-17 15:53 GMT-05:00 Donald McClymont <donaldm2...@gmail.com>: > I don’t think you can set this but not sure why you would want to. However > beware if testing the length of the field as I think if you only have 1 item > in the list then this is a string and you get the number of chars in the > string. While if you have more than 1 you get the length of the list. So > you may need to test the type before using length to ensure you get what you > expect. I don’t know if this would be considered a bug or if it is still > the way it works but it was how it worked in 2.15.x and may have been a > change from 2.14.x. I haven’t checked 2.16.1 > > Donald > > -- > 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. -- Msc. Yoel Benítez Fonseca -- 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.
