Thanks. Yes that's true. However I do think there are definitely situations where it would be useful to be able to call validate like this arbitrarily.
On Thursday, April 3, 2014 2:01:17 PM UTC+13, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > 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.
