have a look in gluon/dal.py to see the internals. Very convenient.
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:30 PM, Jose <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 3 mayo, 00:21, Massimo Di Pierro <[email protected]> > wrote: > > You can easily make a custom type to do that: > > > > import xlib > > compressed = > > SQLCustomType( > > type > > ='text', > > native > > ='text', > > encoder =(lambda x: zlib.compress(x or > > '')), > > decoder = (lambda x: zlib.decompress(x)) > > ) > > > > db.define_table( > > > > 'example', > > Field('data', > > type=compressed) > > ) > > > > May need some testing. Let us know. > > > > How interesting! > Where I can read some about SQLCustomType? > > Anyone use them? In which case? > > Jose
