On Oct 31, 11:58 pm, Thadeus Burgess <thade...@thadeusb.com> wrote:
> Yes I was in a rush to get to a Halloween party, ok here is sample code.
>
> db.define_table('person', Field('name'), Field('address'),
> Field('referred_by', 'reference person'))
>
> So when a person fills out a form, they enter the name of the person that
> referred them, I do a query, and insert that record in the field
>
> .....
>
> SQLFORM.factory(db.person.fields....)
>
> if form.accepts(....):
> referrer = db(db.person.name ==
> request.vars.referred_by.capitalize()).select().first()
> db.person.insert(name=request.vars.name, address=request.vars.address,
> referred_by=referrer)
>
> WIth this code, that exception is thrown, every single time.
>
> However if i did
>
> if referrer:
> referrer = referrer.id
> else: referrer = None
>
> It works correctly.
>
> I was under the assumption that with the new DAL features in 1.70.1 that the
> former code would have worked? Am I mistaken and still have to reference it
> by id when inserting new records?
>
> -Thadeus
>
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 11:44 PM, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>
> > I do not understand your test.
>
> > On Oct 31, 7:15 pm, Thadeus Burgess <thade...@thadeusb.com> wrote:
> > > I am attempting to use the new DAL feature, where you can do a select,
> > > and take the first row and insert that row into the reference column
> > > of the database as a reference.
>
> > > I get the following error. This is fixed by just referencing row.id.
>
> > > Did I misunderstand, this new feature was for inserts as well as just
> > selecting?
>
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
>
> > > File "gluon/restricted.py", line 184, in restricted
>
> > > exec ccode in environment
> > > File line 238, in <module>
>
> > > File ** "gluon/globals.py", line 103, in <lambda>
>
> > > self._caller = lambda f: f()
>
> > > File ** line 214, in controller
>
> > > referred_by=referred_by, ### THIS IS THE ROW RETURNED BY
> > > db...select().first(), this is fixed by just referencing .id
> > > File "gluon/sql.py", line 1681, in insert
>
> > > self._db._execute(query)
>
> > > File "gluon/sql.py", line 838, in <lambda>
>
> > > self._execute = lambda *a, **b: self._cursor.execute(*a, **b)
> > > DataError: value too long for type character varying(1)
>
> > > -Thadeus
>
>
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