Thanks guys -- that makes a ton of sense. I really appreciate it.
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> More specifically, when you provide the "next" argument to
> SQLFORM.process(), it ultimately calls redirect(), which raises an HTTP
> exception. If you put the .process() call inside a try/except, that HTTP
> exception will get caught, and in your case, you are then ignoring it. We
> should probably spell this out more clearly in the book.
>
> You could instead do something like:
>
> except Exception as e:
> if isinstance(e, HTTP):
> raise e # re-raise the exception in case of a redirect
> redirect(URL('index'))
>
> But generally it is much better to catch specific exceptions.
>
> Anthony
>
>
> On Tuesday, December 23, 2014 2:44:57 PM UTC-5, Niphlod wrote:
>>
>> are you aware that in web2py any HTTP is a subclass of exception ? Never,
>> never, never use an exception without specifying what exception your code
>> may raise.
>>
>> On Tuesday, December 23, 2014 7:34:45 PM UTC+1, Mark Billion wrote:
>>>
>>> Why are you using an except without specifying the exception? Trying to
>>> catch all possible exceptions.
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, December 23, 2014 1:31:21 PM UTC-5, Leonel Câmara wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Why are you using an except without specifying the exception? Anyway
>>>> just do this:
>>>>
>>>> @auth.requires_login()
>>>> def cli_add():
>>>> db.client.au_usr.default = auth.user_id
>>>> form = SQLFORM(db.client, fields = ['d_fn', 'd_ln', 'd_aka',
>>>> 'd_ss'], labels = {'d_ss': 'Social Security', 'd_aka': 'Any Aliases',
>>>> 'd_65': 'Older than 65'}).process(next=URL('clients'))
>>>> return dict(form=form)
>>>>
>>>> --
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