I just found out that ilike doesn't work. from the code (2.9.11): def ilike(self, value): return self.like(case_sensitive=False)
the value is missing when calling self.like Alex On Thursday, November 27, 2014 12:59:05 PM UTC+1, Alex wrote: > > I just stumbled over this change after I upgraded my application to 2.9.11 > - so it seems like this will stay as it is? this is clearly breaking > backwards compatibility (with Postgres), something I did not expect at all. > Until now I had a query with > db.auth_user.first_name.startswith(searchterm) > which was case insensitve and now doesn't work anymore as it used to. > What's the preferred solution? should I change the query to > db.auth_user.first_name.ilike(search_term + '%') > > btw, the documentation is also incorrect. it says: > The like operator is case-insensitive but it can be made case-sensitive > with > db.mytable.myfield.like('value',case_sensitive=True) > > it's actually the other way around. > > Alex > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- 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/d/optout.