Well, first be careful, Any runs the last validator in the list first.
Also, hm... Any reads the not_empty value of its sub-validators and
uses that, and if any of the validators accept empty values then it
shortcuts the process. Hrm. I think All has been revised to be a
little more sensible (the is_empty method on All always returns
false). Yeah... okay, I changed that in trunk so Any and All work the
same.
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Matthew Wilson <matt@???> wrote:
> Thanks for the tip.
>
> Any idea why Any() doesn't seem to run in my code when no value exists?
>
> Matt
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Ian Bicking <ianb@???> wrote:
>> For something like this, I usually handle this stuff with unencoded
>> values. That is, I don't hit the validator at all when rendering the
>> form. I'd just get the defaults like:
>>
>> if req.method == 'POST':
>> defaults = req.POST.mixed()
>> force_defaults = True
>> else:
>> defaults = {}
>> force_defaults = False
>> defaults.update(cgi.parse_qs(req.cookies.get('form_defaults', '')))
>> defaults.update(req.GET.mixed())
>> body = htmlfill.render(form, defaults, force_defaults=force_defaults)
>>
>> If you want to use a validator, I'd use it on the line "defaults={}",
>> and replace that with something that grabs the encoded values from
>> some existing model, then runs "defaults =
>> schema.from_python(values)".
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Matthew Wilson <matt@???> wrote:
>>> I store fields from form submissions into a cookie, and then when a
>>> user hits a form, I prepopulate the form with that data.
>>>
>>> I want to write a validator that first tries to get values from the
>>> query string, and if that is None, then the validator should check the
>>> cookie.
>>>
>>> Here is what I have:
>>>
>>> class LookInCookie(FancyValidator):
>>> """
>>> Retrieves something from the cookie. Depends on a state with an
>>> attribute named 'simple_cookie'.
>>> """
>>>
>>> def __init__(self, k, d=None):
>>> """
>>> Return k from the cookie, or d if it isn't there.
>>> """
>>> self.k, self.d = k, d
>>>
>>> def to_python(self, value, state=None):
>>>
>>> log.debug("Inside LookInCookie.to_python with locals: %s"
>>> % locals())
>>>
>>> if hasattr(state, 'simple_cookie') \
>>> and state.simple_cookie.has_key(self.k):
>>>
>>> return state.simple_cookie[self.k]
>>>
>>> else:
>>> return self.d
>>>
>>> Then I tried to combine this validator with Any() like this:
>>>
>>>>>> from turbogears.util import Bunch
>>>>>> s = Bunch(simple_cookie={'city':1})
>>>>>> v = Any(LookInCookie('city'), validators.Int())
>>>>>> v.to_python('99', s)
>>> 99
>>>>>> v.to_python('abc', s)
>>> 1
>>>
>>> So far, so good! First, the Int validator runs, then when Int fails,
>>> I get the value from the cookie s.
>>>
>>> However, here's where things fall apart. When there is no value
>>> passed in, nothing comes back out!
>>>
>>>>>> v.to_python('', s)
>>>>>> v.to_python(None, s)
>>>
>>>
>>> How do I force validators to run even when the value is missing?
>>>
>>> More generally, is there a better solution to what I'm trying to do?
>>>
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