Hi Massimo and web2py team, Just following up on this issue. If you guys agree it's a bug I can open a ticket for it.
Thanks Ryan On Aug 29, 4:03 pm, rdmurphy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > Since it's my first post, I'd like to first say great framework to the > whole team. I'm really enjoying using it. > > I think I've found a small bug in the handling of list fields in an > invalid form. > I have a list:string field and another required field. > > When there is only 1 input field and value for the list field and the > submitted form is invalid (the other field is invalid), the returned > error form splits my 1 value up into individual characters since it > assumes the request.var is an array. > > I've traced it down to sqlhtml in this section around row 1090: > > if hasattr(field, 'widget') and field.widget and fieldname in > request_vars: > if fieldname in self.vars: > value = self.vars[fieldname] > ....etc.... > widget = field.widget(field, value) > > Then ListWidget exects to be getting an array as the value. > > So might need a check on the value type if using self.vars, like: > if field.type.startswith('list:') and isinstance(value, str): > value = [value] > > Thanks > Ryan
