Maybe something like this: def allows_none(field): from pydal._globals import DEFAULT requires = field.requires if field.requires and field.requires != DEFAULT else [] requires = requires if isinstance(requires, list) else [requires] return not any(validator(None)[1] != None for validator in requires)
Then simply check via: allows_none(db.mytable.myfield) Note, the above only checks validators -- if you also want to check for the "notnull" or "required" attributes, you can add those checks to the function. It also only checks for the specific value None -- you could extend it to check for empty strings (and possibly empty lists in the case of list:-type fields) as well. Anthony -- 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.