Just to comment, get back to Mengu's original post: I believe the problem Mengu is seeking to solve: To have field- specific feedback per specific validator failure.
On Mar 15, 4:52 am, Mengu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Currently web2py validation works on CRUD and SQLFORM. But some of us > don't use those and build their forms by hand. But when this is the > issue we have to validate every input ourselves in the controller > which is not nice so I have came up with an idea. I can set an > error_message per field object as an addition to requires attribute. > Let's say this is our table: > > db.define_table( > 'users', > Field('name'), > Field('email') > ) > > And this is how we can define our requires attribute: > db.users.name.requires = IS_NOT_EMPTY() > db.users.email.requires = [IS_EMAIL(), IS_NOT_IN_DB(db, > 'users.email')] > > Now, we can add our error messages like this: > db.users.name.requires = IS_NOT_EMPTY() > db.users.name.error_message = "Please enter your name" The current way to do this: db.users.name.requires = IS_NOT_EMPTY( error_message="Please enter your name") Without a table (as per Carlo's later request): form=FORM('Your name:', INPUT(_name='name', requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY(error_message="Please enter your name"), INPUT(_type='submit')) > db.users.email.requires = [IS_EMAIL(), IS_NOT_IN_DB(db, > 'users.email')] > db.users.email.error_message = ["Given e-mail is not a valid one.", > "Sorry, this e-mail already exists in our database"] in either way you are doing this (db field type, or FORM-INPUT), the way is similar: ....requires=[IS_EMAIL(error_message="Given e-mail is not a valid one."), IS_NOT_IN_DB(db, 'users.email', error_message="Sorry, this e- mail already exists in our database")] Hope this helps clarify. Regards, - Yarko > > My patch for object validation is working when the insert method is > called. So the following example will return a list of errors: > > print db.users.insert(name="", email="b...@email") > > and the return is: ['Please enter your name', 'Given e-mail is not a > valid one.'] > > so we can iterate over the errors and show them. > > you can see my addition > here:http://github.com/mengu/web2py-patches/blob/master/gluon/sql.py#L1888... > > let me know what you think or if i should follow any other way for > this. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.
