I think what you are looking for is the Field's compute argument. Check out compute and update arguments for the field constructor, compared to what the default argument does.
I would get confused by this as well -- web2py does it the best way and does it consistently, but when getting into I might have expected default to do some magic based on whether the argument were callable or not. So perhaps this should go in the FAQ. On Aug 27, 9:42 pm, Adrian Klaver <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday 27 August 2010 8:27:31 pm mdipierro wrote: > > > Try > > > db.define_table(.....,Field(...,default=Expression('CURRENT_DATE',db=db)),. > >...) > > > I cannot promise this works but let us know. > > No exceptions. What it created was: > > CREATE TABLE default_test( > id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, > date_default DATE, > txt_fld TEXT > ); > > No DEFAULT on the field. > > -- > Adrian Klaver > [email protected]
