I can't get my custom checkboxes widget to parse the data like |1|3|45| that
is the problem.

It displays correctly, and the SQLFORM will accept it, but it stores it
wrong.

-Thadeus




On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:38 PM, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:

>
> Multiple stores data as '|1|3|45|' because this is easy to parse
> unambiguously using like '%|3|%'.
>
> On Nov 16, 9:27 pm, Thadeus Burgess <thade...@thadeusb.com> wrote:
> > What is special about the SQLFORM.widgets.checkboxes.widget that makes
> > web2py process the data into a string of pipe separated integers?
> > multiple=True
> >
> > It seems in my custom implementation of a checkboxes widget, will allow
> you
> > to post multiple, however it stores the data as the actual list.
> >
> > I am trying to do a custom checkboxes that are displayed in a
> hierarchical
> > tree. The checkboxes display correctly, but SQLFORM saves it wrong.
> Widget
> > code in 0_plugin_categories.py
> >
> > Code:http://static.thadeusb.com/web2py.app.welcome.w2p
> >
> > Below, the first two are the SQLFORM widget, and the last three is
> testing
> > with my custom widget.
> >
> > test.id <
> http://127.0.0.1:8000/welcome/appadmin/select/db?orderby=test.id>
> > test.name<
> http://127.0.0.1:8000/welcome/appadmin/select/db?orderby=test.name>
> > test.categories<
> http://127.0.0.1:8000/welcome/appadmin/select/db?orderby=test.categories>
> > 1 <http://127.0.0.1:8000/welcome/appadmin/update/db/test/1>
> > asdf|7|9|2<http://127.0.0.1:8000/welcome/appadmin/update/db/test/2>
> > asdf2|6|11|12|5|3 <
> http://127.0.0.1:8000/welcome/appadmin/update/db/test/3>
> > ['3', '4', '6']4 <
> http://127.0.0.1:8000/welcome/appadmin/update/db/test/4>
> > ['2', '8', '12'] 5 <
> http://127.0.0.1:8000/welcome/appadmin/update/db/test/5>
> > ['1', '2', '8...
> >
> > -Thadeus
> >
>

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