Hi,
A minimal example:
likertRightAnswer = ['Yes', 'No', 'Impossible to tell']
form = SQLFORM.factory(
Field('rightAnswer',
widget=horizontal_radios,
requires=IS_IN_SET(likertRightAnswer,
error_message=T('Please choose a
response.'))),
hidden={'timestart':request.now.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')}
)
In this case, BEAUTIFY(request.post_vars) will include, timestart and
rightAnswer, but BEAUTIFY(form.vars) will only include rightAnswer.
If we instead setup the appropriate db as db.ratings, and then do:
likertRightAnswer = ['Yes', 'No', 'Impossible to tell']
form = SQLFORM(db.ratings,
hidden={'timestart':request.now.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')}
)
In this case, both BEAUTIFY(request.post_vars) and BEAUTIFY(form.vars) will
both include timestart and rightAnswer.
The second behavior is "more expected" at least to me.
Right now, I'm using request.post_vars.timestart to access the value after
the form.accepts call, but this feels like I'm hacking something together.
And it essentially circumvents the security feature discussed in this
thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/ab21d9d21693ee2e/1f6781206e956405?lnk=gst&q=hidden+form+fields+not+accepted#1f6781206e956405
So is this a bug? Or should I be doing something different? (My application
creates a bunch of little temporary forms and I don't want to bloat
the data-store with them.)
Cheers,
--
Nathan VanHoudnos
|- Statistics & Public Policy PhD student
|- Program for Interdisciplinary Education Research (PIER) Fellowship
|- Carnegie Mellon University
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