Seems like a bug. You can report it here: http://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list
On Wednesday, October 12, 2011 4:55:44 AM UTC-4, apple wrote: > > Is this a bug then? > > I have tried string and text fields; specifying length and using > IS_LENGTH. In every case it seems to generate strings longer than > specified. > > On Oct 11, 4:30 pm, Anthony <abas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tuesday, October 11, 2011 10:49:59 AM UTC-4, apple wrote: > > > > > Have just started using "populate" which is a really useful tool. > > > However I have a couple of questions: > > > > > 1) It seems to ignore the length specified for string fields. For > > > example it fills my postcode field with 100 characters of text despite > > > it having length of 8. Is there a way of restricting the text to 8 > > > characters? > > > > Looking at the code, it appears it should respect the length attribute of > a > > string field. Not sure what the problem is. > > > > > > > > > 2) Sometimes it fails with a sqlite error saying "column name is not > > > unique". Does it not recognise unique constraints? > > > > It doesn't appear to recognize unique constraints. > > > > Anthony
