I found a very good article on Formencode that I think would greatly benefit the Pylons community. Chanced upon this while surfing through Delicious:
http://grahamstratton.org/straightornamental/entries/formencode On Mar 1, 10:18 am, Ian Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > If you set allow_extra_fields=True and filter_extra_fields=False on > your schema then you would only need to specify the fields you need > validated. I don't recommend this though because then you could > receive any fields and since its a truly public interface that is > probably a bad idea. So I would specify a validator for all your > fields and just set not_empty=False on the validators. > > > > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Mark <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > I'm relatively new to FormEncode and its methodologies. I was > > wondering if we need to validate an optional field, for example, a > > description textbox in my registration form. The desired result would > > be that the user can choose whether or not to fill out the description > > text box. > > > My Question: > > > Say I have 8 fields (select boxes, textareas, text input fields) in my > > form. In the class that subclasses formencode.Schema, do I need to > > specify a validator for EVERY field in the form OR can I just specify > > a validator for the fields I want validated? > > > Thanks > > > -Mark > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "pylons-discuss" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en.
