Hi Massimo --
Yes, that should to it. I have a live cgiFieldStorage object at the
breakpoint and when I enter "x is not None" reports True.
-- Joe
P.S. still having upload issues, but that's a separate thread!
On Monday, July 29, 2013 5:46:29 AM UTC-7, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>
> Good catch. I changed "if value" into "if value is not None". Does that
> fix the problem?
>
> On Sunday, 28 July 2013 22:50:14 UTC-5, Joe Barnhart wrote:
>>
>> Guess what??
>>
>> I've found this bug again -- this time in the DAL module! Here is the
>> affected code, it's a part of the Table class:
>>
>> def _attempt_upload(self, fields):
>> for field in self:
>> if field.type=='upload' and field.name in fields:
>> value = fields[field.name]
>> *if value and not isinstance(value,str):*
>> if hasattr(value,'file') and
>> hasattr(value,'filename'):
>> new_name =
>> field.store(value.file,filename=value.filename)
>> elif hasattr(value,'read') and hasattr(value,'name'):
>> new_name = field.store(value,filename=value.name)
>> else:
>> raise RuntimeError("Unable to handle upload")
>> fields[field.name] = new_name
>>
>>
>> If this function is passed an instance of cgi.FieldStorage for an upload
>> field, the "if" clause resolves to FALSE because cgi.FieldStorage does not
>> support the convention of "has data = true". It returns False whether it
>> has data or not. Therefore, you can't use "form.validate()" with your own
>> "insert" to manually process forms with upload values.
>>
>> I've been pounding on WingIDE to figure out why I couldn't get my code to
>> work as documented, and I found this. I'm not exactly sure how to code
>> around it, but I'll figure something out.
>>
>> -- Joe B
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, May 30, 2013 2:06:20 AM UTC-7, Joe Barnhart wrote:
>>>
>>> I've had the most awful time trying to get the actual filename of an
>>> uploaded file to appear in my database. I've gone over and over the
>>> advice, but it has never worked for me. I was beginning to suspect evil
>>> spirits in my code when I ran across the problem...
>>>
>>> cgi.FieldStorage does NOT behave like other Python variables in that it
>>> doesn't resolve to True if the object contains data. It resolves to False
>>> ALL THE TIME, whether it has data or not.
>>>
>>> I was dutifully following advice and had code that looked like:
>>>
>>>
>>> if request.vars.upload:
>>> form.vars.filename = request.vars.upload.filename
>>>
>>>
>>> But guess what? The code inside "if" NEVER RUNS.
>>>
>>> For now I've worked around it by using the method "has_key()" on the
>>> cgi.FieldStorage object:
>>>
>>>
>>> if request.vars.has_key('upload'):
>>> form.vars.filename = request.vars.upload.filename
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> And this works.
>>>
>>> The "proper" fix is probably to modify cgi.FieldStorage so that is
>>> resolves to True if it has data and False if empty, like all other Python
>>> objects. But I thought I'd pass along my epiphany in case others are
>>> wondering if their code is inhabited by evil spirits.
>>
>>
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