Hi guys, I'm trying to understand what validate_and_insert() and validate_and_update() are doing to see if I can use it reliably. I'm writing an API, and I have no need for form validation. So after spending sometime reading the DAL code, I still have a few questions:
- When I insert a record that already exists (unique field), validate_and_insert() is smart enough to tell me that the record already exist, but I can't figure out how? I can't find out which "select" statement it's doing. - If the validation is per-field, and the table has 5 "unique" fields, will DAL make 5 selects before inserting? - Is it possible to get more than one error in return dict from validate_and_insert() ret.errors? - What people are using for DAL/DB layer validations on rest APIs? From my google searches, it looks like not a lot of people are using validate_and_insert(). Thanks! :) --
