On Mar 26, 9:22 pm, Brian Will <[email protected]> wrote:
> Found my own answer: I can create an onvalidation function for the
> form that only runs when the form is accepted but before the new
> record is made.
Right
> The problem this then introduces is how to set the
> enclosing variable from the function without use of nonlocal.
you could add it to the form
> Guess I
> can just create a dict for the vars ahead of time and set that from
> the function. Like so:
>
> vars = {}
>
> def get_uuid(form):
> from uuid import uuid4
> uuid = uuid4()
> db.job_post.uuid.default = lambda: uuid
> vars['uuid'] = uuid
def get_uuid(form):
from uuid import uuid4
form.vars.uuid = uuid4()
Setting a field's default value is useful before creating a form,
at this point you are between acceptance and db i/o.
BTW, you don't need lambda to set a default.
> if form.accepts(request.vars, session, onvalidation=get_uuid):
> vars['poster_name'] = form.vars.poster_name
> vars['poster_email'] = form.vars.poster_email
> redirect(URL('post_email', vars=vars))
if form.accepts(request.vars, session, onvalidation=get_uuid):
redirect(URL('post_email',
vars={'poster_name' : form.vars.poster_name,
'poster_email' : form.vars.poster_email})
