auth.user is Storage(table_user._filter_fields(user, id=True)). The _filter_fields method of the auth_user table only selects actual table fields, not virtual fields, so auth.user will not include any virtual fields. Perhaps this should be changed. Anthony
On Friday, July 29, 2011 9:05:39 PM UTC-4, Michael Toomim wrote: > I think I found a bug in virtualfields. I have the following > controller: > > def posts(): > user = session.auth.user > n = user.name # returns None > > Where "person" is defined as a virtualfield on user: > > class Users(): > def name(self): > return self.users.first_name + ' ' + self.users.last_name > db.users.virtualfields.append(Users()) > > The problem is that user.name returns None, because apparently the > virtualfield isn't loaded into the session variable of user. > > I made this work with the following modification to the controller: > > def posts(): > user = db.users[session.auth.user.id] > n = user.name # returns the user name correctly! > > I just had to refetch the user from the database.
