Can you explain it?

On Sep 5, 3:34 am, "mr.freeze" <nat...@freezable.com> wrote:
> I think this would do it:
>
> Index: gluon/sqlhtml.py
> ===================================================================
> --- gluon/sqlhtml.py    (revision 1196)
> +++ gluon/sqlhtml.py    (working copy)
> @@ -167,11 +167,14 @@
>          :param field: the field needing checking
>          :returns: True if the field has options
>          """
> +        requires = field.requires
> +        if not isinstance(requires, (list, tuple)):
> +            requires = [requires]
> +        requires0 = requires[0]
> +        return hasattr(requires0, 'options')\
> +             or isinstance(requires0, IS_NULL_OR)\
> +             and hasattr(requires0.other, 'options')
>
> -        return hasattr(field.requires, 'options')\
> -             or isinstance(field.requires, IS_NULL_OR)\
> -             and hasattr(field.requires.other, 'options')
> -
>     �...@staticmethod
>      def widget(field, value, **attributes):
>          """
> @@ -602,7 +605,11 @@
>                  else:
>                      inpval = ''
>              elif OptionsWidget.has_options(field):
> -                if not field.requires.multiple:
> +                requires = field.requires
> +                if not isinstance(requires, (list, tuple)):
> +                    requires = [requires]
> +                requires0 = requires[0]
> +                if not requires0.multiple:
>                      inp = self.widgets.options.widget(field, default)
>                  else:
>                      inp = self.widgets.multiple.widget(field,
> default)
>
> On Sep 5, 3:00 am, "mr.freeze" <nat...@freezable.com> wrote:
>
> > I think SQLFORM should be changed to allow for IS_IN_SET with other
> > validators then you could just do:
> > requires=[IS_IN_SET(['','English','Chinese','Italian']),IS_NOT_EMPTY
> > ()]
>
> > Or you could get fancy:
> > requires=[IS_IN_SET(['Please
> > choose...','English','Chinese','Italian']),IS_EXPR("str(value) !=
> > 'Please choose...' ")]
>
> > It could just be a convention that requires[0] is IS_IN_SET (similar
> > to how IS_NULL_OR works currently).
>
> > On Sep 4, 11:58 pm, Iceberg <iceb...@21cn.com> wrote:
>
> > > Hi Massimo,
>
> > > My first web2py app is an order management system for my company, it
> > > worked well in enterprise production for more than 15 months now. By
> > > the way, all my other "first work of something" ended up as just a
> > > prototype but not this one, thank god and web2py. I am refactoring the
> > > app and going to share some ideas. Here comes the first one, about UI/
> > > UE aspect.
>
> > > Currently, if we write code like this:
> > >   db.Field('language', requires=IS_IN_SET
> > > (['English','Chinese','Italian']))
> > > it generates a drop-down list for three choices and the "English"
> > > appears as the first option.
>
> > > It is ok but, according to my long time observation, users who are
> > > facing a long form with dozens of fields, tend to finish each blank
> > > field one by one, but won't give enough attention to fields showing a
> > > default value. So it would be much better if the above example can be
> > > rendered as a drop-down list with 4 choices: an initial blank, then
> > > English, Chinese, Italian. Currently this can be done by:
> > >   db.Field('language', requires=IS_NULL_OR(IS_IN_SET
> > > (['English','Chinese','Italian'])))
> > > but with a side effect that the empty value is also acceptable,
> > > sometimes not what we want.
>
> > > So my proposal is to adjust OptionsWidget to always show up with an
> > > initial blank (when creating record), but not necessarily accepting
> > > it. Just change line 198 of sqlhtml.py from:
> > >   opts = []
> > > to:
> > >   if value:
> > >     opts = []
> > >   else: # To enforce an explicit choice when creating new record
> > >     opts = [OPTION(_value='')]
>
> > > Please give it a try and hope you will like it.
>
> > > Regards,
> > > Iceberg
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