The fact is, you can do both. If you want the values to be evaluated on insert, just do
Field(...,default=lambda: f()) instead of Field(...,default=f()) If you want lazy evaluation you have to be explicit. On Jan 27, 4:51 pm, Vinicius Assef <vinicius...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Bernd Rothert <roth...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > Multiple inserts for the same request should get unique uuids of > > course, so we need a function here. > > I faced this problem some time ago. > > Default values defined in models are not assigned in INSERT time, but > in REQUEST time. > > So, if you have a loop with insert inside it, all records will have > the same default values. > > This is a web2py feature, in spite my thought explained that time that > it should be different. When you talk about database, default values > should be evaluated as in SQL INSERT: in insert time. > > -- > Vinicius Assef.
