Okay, I've thought more about this and can see why you might want to
overwrite the validators...you don't want IS_NOT_IN_DB(db,
auth_table.email) validation on login! So maybe just a case-sensitive
flag?
On Apr 26, 12:01 pm, Russell <russell.mcmur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Auth.login overwrites any custom email validators that you define.
> Specifically, line 1019 of tools.py overwrites
> table_user[username].requires with
> IS_EMAIL(error_message=self.messages.invalid_email). Why is this
> necessary? For example, it means that this does NOT work:
>
> db.py
> -----
> auth_table = db.define_table(
> auth.settings.table_user_name,
> Field('email', length=128, default='',
> unique=True, writable=True),
> ...)
>
> auth_table.email.requires = [
> IS_LOWER(),
> IS_EMAIL(error_message=auth.messages.invalid_email)]
>
> Email must be case-sensitive?! Anyway, I suggest the following patch
> to tools.py:
>
> Replace:
> 1019 table_user[username].requires = tmpvalidator
> With:
> 1019 table_user[username].requires = table_user[username].requires or
> tmpvalidator
>
> Or if you consider this a feature, perhaps a new setting?
> 1019 if not self.settings.login_email_custom_validators:
> table_user[username].requires = tmpvalidator
>
> Thanks
> Russell
>
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