def change_name(row, name): db(db.person.id == row.person.id).update(name=name)
db.define_table('person', Field('name'), Field.Method('change_name', change_name)) row = db.person(1) row.change_name('Lisandro') Anthony On Friday, April 26, 2019 at 12:21:28 PM UTC-4, Lisandro wrote: > > I've been working with Virtual Fields for a while, but now I'm wondering, > how could I write a Virtual Field method that modifies the row itself? > > I mean, I would like to do something similar that what the > .update_record() method does. When you call row.update_record(), the row > object is updated with the new values. > > I've tried returning the row object in the method definition function but > it doesn't work. > > I'm wondering, is it even possible to implement something like that? Any > comment or suggestion will be much appreciated. > > Thanks! > Warm regards, > Lisandro. > -- 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.