I'm well into the development of my commercial website and I find I am running afoul of the built-in javascript validators in web2py more and more.
If the validators were useless, the decision to just cut them out of the code and be done with it would be easy and simple. But they do have their usefulness, although in far less than 100% of the cases. Therein lies the problem. In my application I'm treating amounts as an integer -- a fairly common practice since real numbers do a poor job at representing exact amounts. So all amounts are stored internally as pennies and I have a custom validator that converts them to dollars and back for display. You can already sense the problem coming... The field is, of course, an integer. That triggers the automagic web2py javascript validator that prevents any decimal numbers from being entered. ANYWHERE. Yes, I can fix it on my forms. I can change the class of the inputs after they're built. Again and again. But suppose I need to make a quick entry thru the appadmin interface? Bzzzzt! Thanks for playing -- you can't enter cents at all in that interface because the automagic javascript validator is in full force inside appadmin. Dates are another vexing issue. The calendar gadget is cute in small doses, but it starts to wear thin when you realize we need to support different locales, different color schemes, etc. So I guess we need to implement the whole jQuery "theming" thing just to make the calendar match the rest of the site. I still haven't found the best answer for default "M-D-Y" entry instead of "Y-M-D". Maybe the Field constructor should have a different entry for the SQL class of the field and its INPUT class. That way I could have a DB field of "integer" and choose to call it "money" when it is built as an INPUT control. At least it would make it easier to avoid the automagic validation. The INPUT class could default to the SQL class for backwards compatibility, but it would make it easier to start providing our own validators and skipping the built in ones. -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
