In further exploration, there's some inconsistencies in behavior.
Sometimes it triggers the error and sometimes it doesn't. I haven't yet
figured out what the determining factor is.
On Tuesday, September 17, 2013 4:02:53 PM UTC-4, REM wrote:
>
> Actually, in checking out this solution, there is no change. It *still*always
> triggers the validator.
>
> What could be causing this?
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, September 17, 2013 2:56:16 PM UTC-4, Anthony wrote:
>>
>> requires=IS_EMPTY_OR([IS_LENGTH(maxsize=200),
>> IS_MATCH('^[a-zA-Z0-9\s\#\.\$\-\_]+$', error_message
>> ='Character Not Allowed.')])
>>
>>
>> Anthony
>>
>> On Tuesday, September 17, 2013 2:44:14 PM UTC-4, REM wrote:
>>>
>>> I have a form field which is not required, but when it is submitted with
>>> data, I want the data to be validated. The problem is, I get the validator
>>> triggering when the form is submitted with no value in that field. I want
>>> it to wait until there's data in there to validate it and ignore it if
>>> blank. I thought I could get this behavior with required=False and then
>>> using requires= validators, but it is failing the validation every time
>>> when there's no data in the field. How do you get it to validate data
>>> that's present and ignore blanks?
>>>
>>> The field in question is in the db.py as follows:
>>>
>>> Field('special_code1', 'string', length=200, required=False,
>>> label='Special
>>> Code 1',
>>> requires=[IS_LENGTH(maxsize=200),
>>> IS_MATCH('^[a-zA-Z0-9\s\#\.\$\-\_]+$',error_message
>>> ='Character Not Allowed.')]
>>> ),
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> There are no other controllers acting on this data, and no combination
>>> of anything I try above gets me what I want.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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