Thanks Leonel, I'd actually seen that solution, but that is specifically validating that the coordinates of a Point(X Y) WKT string are in the domain of a geographic coordinate system. I'm interested in the more general assessment of whether an alleged WKT string is well formatted - could be any of the geometry types.
My solution doesn't actually work without importing the Exception - and those are specific to backends. This fixes it, but is this the best way to catch the error in a general way? if geometry is not None: try: geo_wkb = db.executesql("select st_geomfromtext('{}');".format(geometry)) except db._adapter.driver.ProgrammingError: raise HTTP(404, "Invalid WKT Geometry") Cheers, David On Friday, 15 March 2019 13:21:43 UTC, David Orme wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'm looking for an approach to validate a user provided WKT geometry. The > obvious answer is to let the spatial backend do the validation, so this > works: > > if geometry is not None: > try: > geometry = db.executesql("select > st_geomfromtext('{}');".format(geometry)) > except ProgrammingError: > raise HTTP(404, "Invalid WKT Geometry") > > I suspect that is probably pretty robust across backends but am I missing > something more general? > > Cheers, > David > > > -- 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.