On further trace, it looks like Question 1 is a bug ... in my code (I sort of expected that). Sorry for making a noise. However, question2 still stands.
On Feb 29, 3:19 pm, weheh <[email protected]> wrote: > db.define_table('test', > > Field('test_id',db.referrer,requires=IS_NULL_OR(IS_IN_DB(db,'referrer.id')) ), > Field('name','upload',label=T('Upload file'), > autodelete=True, > uploadfolder=os.path.join(request.folder,'static/data'), > uploadseparate=True, > requires=( > IS_UPLOAD_FILENAME(extension='txt'), > IS_LENGTH(5000000,10)) > ), > Field('image','upload',label=T('Image'), > autodelete=True, > uploadseparate=True, > requires=(IS_NOT_EMPTY(),IS_IMAGE(),IS_LENGTH(128000,10))), > ) > > Question 1: **this may be a bug.** > When I delete a "test" record, the image is not being deleted. Isn't > autodelete=True supposed to do that for me? I know I have seen this > work before, but it's not working for me now. v 1.99.4. I am in the > process of tracing this more thoroughly. > > Question 2: > How do I selectively delete the "image" field without deleting the > entire "test" record? In other words, I want to delete the image file > and null-out the image field, but leave the rest of the test record > intact.
