Ah that makes a lot more sense, I should not code tired. I also tried
out IS_EQUAL_TO() and works like a charm. Thanks.
On Jun 27, 3:31 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> IS_EXPR('value==repr(request.vars.password)',
>
> should be
>
> IS_EXPR('value==%s' % repr(request.vars.password),
>
> Anyway, this seems to come up a lot, so I added a new validator in
> trunk:
>
> IS_EQUAL_TO(request.vars.password)
>
> Please give it a try.
>
> On Jun 27, 1:52 am, Alastair Medford <alastairmedf...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Alright, I'm burned out on trying to solve this.
>
> > I'm trying to make a form that checks if two fields match, like
> > password + verify password. I noticed in the book that there's an
> > example of this, but I can't seem to get it working. The code given is
> > as follows (this is with a typo correction, a quote is missing in
> > IS_EXPR in the book):
>
> > def index():
> > match_it = IS_EXPR('value==repr(request.vars.password)',
> > error_message='passwords do not match')
> > form = SQLFORM.factory(
> > Field('username', requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY()),
> > Field('password', requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY()),
> > Field('password_again', requires=match_it))
> > if form.accepts(request.vars, session):
> > pass # or take some action
> > return dict(form=form)
>
> > I run this code exactly, and while it works for displaying the page,
> > as soon as I submit the form I get the following error:
>
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "gluon/restricted.py", line 178, in restricted
> > File "E:/development/web2py/applications/informed/controllers/
> > users.py", line 23, in <module>
> > File "gluon/globals.py", line 96, in <lambda>
> > File "E:/development/web2py/applications/informed/controllers/
> > users.py", line 11, in index
> > File "gluon/sqlhtml.py", line 857, in accepts
> > File "gluon/html.py", line 1311, in accepts
> > File "gluon/html.py", line 454, in _traverse
> > File "gluon/html.py", line 454, in _traverse
> > File "gluon/html.py", line 454, in _traverse
> > File "gluon/html.py", line 454, in _traverse
> > File "gluon/html.py", line 461, in _traverse
> > File "gluon/html.py", line 1118, in _validate
> > File "gluon/validators.py", line 156, in __call__
> > File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
> > NameError: name 'request' is not defined
>
> > Now I imagine this is happening because the IS_EXPR code doesn't have
> > access to the request global. If this is the case, then how can I
> > achieve the result I'm looking for, and why is this example in the
> > book?
