Thanks, Anthony.
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: >> But, according to your define_table()'s, these tables can only be >> managed (insert or update) with a logged user, or default contents >> will raise an excpetion because there's no logged user. > > The defaults won't raise an exception (as long as auth is defined prior to > the table definitions), because auth.user_id simply returns None when the > user is not logged in (i.e., it is not undefined). The same is true for > auth.user -- it returns None when there is no logged in user (though > auth.user.id will raise an exception because if auth.user is None, obviously > it has no 'id' attribute). > See very end of this > section: http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/08#Authentication > Anthony >
