Ok, I will take that into account.
In any case, I have tried calling the function with actual values that are
the DB as following :
onrp_id = get_onrp(1000, 'Lausanne', 12)
just to ensure the function works, but without success.
On Saturday, January 11, 2014 10:56:56 AM UTC+1, zee wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> First post here, so thanks in advance for any help provided.
>
> I have a sub-routine in my main function of a a controller that looks like
> this :
>
> if form.vars.npc:
> pass
> else:
> form.vars.npc = 0
> onrp_row = db(
> (db.npa.npa==form.vars.npa) &
> (db.npa.loc_name_short==form.vars.lns) &
> (db.npa.npa_complement==form.vars.npc)
> ).select(db.npa.id)
> onrp_id=onrp_row[0].id
>
> Essentially, I use this to update a record I just inserted in the db with
> a foreign primary key from an external data source. I need to keep this
> reference for data consistency purposes in case the external source is
> modified.
>
> This sub-routine behaves as expected.
>
> My problem is that I am trying to make a helper function out of this
> sub-routine. I have extracted it from the index() function and my
> controller now looks like this :
>
> def get_onrp(npa, lns, npc=0):
>
> id=db((db.npa.npa==npa)&(db.npa.loc_name_short==lns)&(db.npa.npa_complement==npc)).select(
> db.npa.id)
> if id:
> return id[0].id
> else:
> return 0
>
> def index():
> # SQLFORM.factory here
>
> onrp_id = get_onrp(form.vars.npa, form.vars.lns, form.vars.npc)
>
> # rest of controller logic here
>
> Now, the get_onrp function systematically returns 0, i.e. the db query
> returns no rows.
>
> I have played around in the web2py interactive shell and defining the
> function works as expected as well.
>
> Any suggestions ?
>
>
>
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