You can do errors = db(db.client.id==client.id).validate_and_update_(**vars)
On Wednesday, 2 April 2014 19:03:49 UTC-5, Matt wrote: > > Also adding support for > > errors = client.validate_and_update_record(**vars) > > would be useful too. > > On Thursday, April 3, 2014 12:30:55 PM UTC+13, Matt wrote: >> >> How do I achieve the following elegantly with Web2py? >> >> Before I update an in memory record I want to check it's validators to >> make sure it makes sense before I actually update. >> >> I.e. >> >> client = db.client(7) >> >> if not client: >> raise HTTP(404) >> >> errors = client.validate(**vars) <== Something like this. >> >> if errors: >> raise HTTP(422) >> >> client.update_record(**vars) >> >> >> Is that something that's possible with the current framework or could we >> have it added as it would be extremely useful. >> >> I noticed there seems to be a private def _validate in the dal that could >> be exposed for this purpose. >> >> Interested to hear your thoughts. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Matt >> >> >> -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
