Field objects (to define table fields) support default values
try something like
db.<table name>.<field name>.default = list()
or
Field("<field name>", ... , default=list())
I haven't used it but I guess that on record creation this should
create an empty list field value.
On 5 ene, 19:37, Tsvi Mostovicz <ttm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I managed to find the culprit. The function before it had a mismatched
> parentheses. So it would continue reading this function and fail on
> compilation. Thanks for all your replies. The append works, although
> if this is a new user and no list has been defined yet it won't. So I
> check if it returns None, set the list to [] and then have the append
> statement.
> I thought all the vars would be initialized by default so a list type
> would return [] if it wasn't set in the form.
>
> Another thing I learned is the fact that the function must receive one
> argument (form).
>
> Thanks again for the wonderful support.
>
> Sent from my phone
>
> On 5 בינו 2012, at 00:17, Alan Etkin <spame...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > And if the auth_user field is of type list:<type>, seems that even it
> > is ok to do simply:
>
> > auth.user.mylistfield.append(object)
>
> > without explicit db query or update
>
> > On 4 ene, 18:42, Alan Etkin <spame...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> If you are doing post-registration process, you might want to use
> >> auth.settings.register_onaccept:
>
> >> register_onaccept is a list of functions or a single function or
> >> lambda that receive a form argument
>
> >> form.vars.id contains the id of the new auth_user record.
>
> >> For appending to a sequence stored in an auth_user record field, maybe
> >> it would be better to get the auth_user record field first with a db
> >> query, modify it and finally update the db record.
>
> >> On 4 ene, 11:54, tsvim <ttm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>> Hi all,
>
> >>> I'm trying to use the callbacks for auth.settings.register_onvalidation.
> >>> I first put the function in controllers, when I discovered it should be in
> >>> models as the settings are there.
> >>> Now I have them in models, but I get a invalid syntax error on the last
> >>> line:
>
> >>> def register_new_table_token():
> >>> auth.user.last_opened = session.table_token
> >>> auth.add_membership(auth.add_group(session.table_token),auth.user.id)
> >>> auth.user.my_budgets.append(session.table_token)
> >>> return
>
> >>> This happens both when I have pass instead of return or I don't enter a
> >>> return statement.
>
> >>> Please help,
>
> >>> Thanks,
>
> >>> Tsvi
>
>
