Note, this is not limited to SQLFORM.factory -- same issue with a plain
SQLFORM.
Anthony
On Friday, March 11, 2016 at 8:09:50 AM UTC-5, Carlos Kitu wrote:
>
> Hi guys, I don't show up here too often because all the issues I find use
> to be solved here. Good job.
>
> Today I was going nuts with one issue, and I would like to share my
> findings for other developer's sake.
>
> I was generating a form with SQLFORM.factory:
> form= SQLFORM.factory(...)
>
> In the controller, I was creating a custom form for the view, something
> like:
> custom_form= CAT(form.custom.begin,
> ... custom fields...
> form.custom.submit,
> form.custom.end)
>
> The custom_form displayed fine in the browser, but when I submitted the
> form, it wasn't accepted at:
> if form.process().accepted:
> response.flash='Accepted'
>
> Digging in the SQLFORM and FORM classes I learnt a lot about them, and
> finally I realized the origin of the problem:
>
> - form.process() requires a hidden field (*formkey*) with valid data
> for security reasons. That field uses to be in form.custom.end
> - that field was missing in my custom_form
> - The reason was that when you create a form with SQLFORM.factory,
> initially, there is no hidden *formkey* field in form.custom.end, just
> a humble </form>
> - That *formkey* hidden field gets inserted in form.custom.end when
> you call form.process()
> - That means that form.process() must be called before generating the
> view, in order to have a formkey in form.custom.end. My failure was to try
> to create custom_form = CAT() before calling form.process()
> - Should I have use {{=form.custom.end}} straight in the view, I would
> have had no problem.
> - As I had quite a complex form, I preferred to have it generated in
> the controller, and I just had to put the if form.process().accepted:
> before programatically generating
> the custom_form and everything worked fine
>
> Thanks a lot guys for this helpful group.
> Best regards.
>
>
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