Done: http://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/detail?id=162
<http://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/detail?id=162>Thanks! On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Massimo Di Pierro < [email protected]> wrote: > This is a bug. Would you please post your bug report email on > googlecode? I will fix it asap. > > On Jan 18, 12:23 pm, Nathan VanHoudnos <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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/ab21d9d216... > > > > 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 > > |-http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/nmv > > > > "Neglect of mathematics works injury to all knowledge, > > since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other > > sciences or the things of this world." -- Roger Bacon > -- Nathan VanHoudnos |- Statistics & Public Policy PhD student |- Program for Interdisciplinary Education Research (PIER) Fellowship |- Carnegie Mellon University |- http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/nmv "Neglect of mathematics works injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or the things of this world." -- Roger Bacon
