Okay, that explains the behaviour. How, then, are values usually preserved on an ajax form for the built-in widgets? When I submit the form all of the other fields (not using my widget) preserve the newly submitted values.
Ian On Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 3:51:59 PM UTC-5, Anthony wrote: > > Hard to say without seeing more code, but note that the widgets are > constructed before any database IO, so any database changes from the > current submission will not be reflected in the returned copy of the form. > > Anthony > > On Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 3:40:32 PM UTC-5, Ian W. Scott wrote: >> >> I've got a custom select widget class that is working nicely except that >> when I submit a form via ajax the refreshed widget shows the old >> (pre-submission) field value. But the changes have been made properly to >> the database. If I refresh the page containing the form (not via ajax) the >> new correct value appears. It's just when the field is refreshed after ajax >> submission that the old value re-appears. To be clear, I >> >> 1. change the value for a field using my select widget >> 2. submit the form via ajax (preserving the values normally) >> 3. when the form refreshes my select widget shows the original (wrong) >> value >> 4. I refresh the whole page and the select widget now shows the changed >> (correct) value >> >> I set up the widget (called AjaxSelect) like this: >> >> db.lemmas.extra_tags.widget = lambda field, value: AjaxSelect(field, >> value, >> >> indx=1, >> multi='basic', lister='simple', orderby='tag' >> >> >> ).widget() >> >> I can't see where the problem is in my own code because the wrong value >> is received right when the AjaxSelect class is instantiated. There's >> obviously something about the process of preserving form values that I >> don't understand. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Ian >> > -- 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.
