I think you'd have to manually check and add the div because the password
field isn't added to the form until after the error has been generated.
Anthony
On Friday, September 6, 2013 4:38:24 PM UTC-4, Mark Li wrote:
>
> Ahh ok, thanks Anthony. If the form is being processed before adding the
> extra element to the DOM, then is it possible to add an error like
>
> form.errors.confirm_password = "Must enter correct password"
>
> This would usually cause the error message to appear below the input row,
> but the confirm_password field does not display the error in this case.
> Would I have to manually check for an error and add an error div, or is
> there still a way to use the builtin error messages?
>
> On Friday, September 6, 2013 6:42:40 AM UTC-7, Anthony wrote:
>>
>> You are adding an element to the form DOM after the form has been
>> processed, so the new field will not get added to form.vars. However, in
>> your onvalidation function, you should be able to replace
>> form.vars.confirm_password with request.vars.confirm_password.
>>
>> Anthony
>>
>> On Friday, September 6, 2013 2:17:49 AM UTC-4, Mark Li wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks Massimo. However, using
>>> auth.settings.profile_onvalidation.append(reauthenticate_user)
>>>
>>> has presented a problem of its own.
>>>
>>> I insert an extra field ("confirm_password"), to recheck in the
>>> onvalidation method. However, the form.vars does not contain
>>> form.vars.confirm_password, which worked before when I was using form.
>>> process(onvalidation=reauthenticate_user)
>>>
>>>
>>> Here is the relevant code:
>>>
>>> auth.settings.profile_onvalidation.append(reauthenticate_user)
>>> form=auth.profile()
>>> my_extra_element = TR(LABEL('Confirm Password'),INPUT(_type="password",
>>> _name="confirm_password", _class="string"))
>>> form[0].insert(-1,my_extra_element)
>>>
>>>
>>> def reauthenticate_user(form):
>>> #recheck the user password
>>> plain_password = form.vars.confirm_password
>>> if db.auth_user.password.validate(plain_password) != (db(db.
>>> auth_user.id==auth.user.id).select().first().password, None):
>>> form.errors.confirm_password = "Must enter correct password"
>>>
>>>
>>> The form passed into reauthenticate_user does not contain
>>> form.vars.confirm_password variable. Any ideas on why this happens now, but
>>> not before?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thursday, September 5, 2013 4:46:11 PM UTC-7, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This
>>>>
>>>> form = auth.profile()
>>>> form.process(onvalidation=reauthenticate_user)
>>>>
>>>> is wrong because auth.profile() already calls process inside. Instead
>>>> you should do:
>>>>
>>>> auth.settings.profile_onvalidation.append(reauthenticate_user)
>>>> form = auth.profile()
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, 5 September 2013 17:42:18 UTC-5, Mark Li wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Currently I am creating a form with auth.profile()
>>>>>
>>>>> I have an onvalidation method to perform some extra checks.
>>>>>
>>>>> form = auth.profile()
>>>>> if form.process(onvalidation=reauthenticate_user).accepted:
>>>>>
>>>>> response.flash = "Changes Saved"
>>>>> elif form.errors:
>>>>>
>>>>> response.flash = "Errors found
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> This prevented auth.user object from being updated, which
>>>>> auth.profile() usually takes care of.
>>>>>
>>>>> I also tried it with the following:
>>>>>
>>>>> form = auth.profile()
>>>>> form.process(onvalidation=reauthenticate_user)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> but the default accepts method that usually updates auth.user doesn't
>>>>> work either
>>>>>
>>>>> For now, I've just added the following to the accepted method:
>>>>> auth.user.update(db.auth_user._filter_fields(form.vars))
>>>>>
>>>>> But I'm interested in knowing if it's possible to specify an
>>>>> onvalidation method for auth.profile(), while still using the built-in
>>>>> accepts method.
>>>>>
>>>>
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