Hi,

I'm looking for a way to define a default foreign key dynamically.

For example if I have the following schema:

db.define_table('owner',Field('name', 'string'), 
Field('isdefault','boolean',default=False))
db.people.insert('name'='Bill')
db.people.insert('name'='unknown',isdefault=True)
db.define_table('dog', 
Field('name','string'),Field('owner',db.owner,default=????))
db.dog.insert(name='Fido',owner=1)
db.dog.insert(name='mutt') # hopefully points to "unknown" in owner table

Is there a way I could dynamically check the "owner" table and return the 
id of the first row where isdefault==True whenever I define a new "dog" 
without an owner?
In the example above the "mutt" row should have owner==2 ("unknown" in the 
owner table).

Trying to put a function as the default argument does not work. I realize I 
could set the owner to always be the first row in the table but I would 
like something more robust and flexible.

Thanks
Vincent

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