I am not happy with extra. Currently we have three mechanisms to deal with "extra" fields. table._extra, lazy virtual fields, links in grid/smartgrid. None of them are undocumented in the book which means that for none of them we promise backward compatibility.
Massimo On Oct 23, 2:27 pm, Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sunday, October 23, 2011 3:16:56 PM UTC-4, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > > You are right. I misunderstood the issue. > > Do you think assignments to _extra should be enabled (transparently, not by > directly hacking the _extra dictionary), or should _extra remain read-only? > The current behavior is a bit mysterious -- you can seemingly make an > assignment to links[cash_price] without receiving an error, but when you try > to retrieve the new value, it's not there. > > Anthony