Correction. {{=form.custom.labels[fieldname]}} did work in the trunk,
but the proper syntax is "label", not "labels".
Sorry for the misinformation.
On Jun 10, 9:58 pm, Gary <gary.k.ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Massimo,
>
> Thank you. You mentioned before that widget worked in the trunk - you
> are, of course correct, but I just wanted to make note to others that
> it fails in the current version 1.63.5. Also, {{=form.custom.labels
> [fieldname]}} did not work in the trunk. It failed with "TypeError:
> 'NoneType' object is unsubscriptable". Just wanted you to know.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> On Jun 10, 5:59 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>
> > On Jun 10, 3:49 pm, Gary <gary.k.ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Massimo,
>
> > > Thank you so much for your feedback. Most of the changes you
> > > suggested certainly made the code simpler and easier to read, but I
> > > have a couple of issues that I don't understand.
>
> > > 1) It appears that the line:
>
> > > getattr(crud,session.action)(db[tablename],record)
>
> > getattr(yyy,'xxx') is the same as yyy.xxx
>
> > > executes the crud call, but I don't understand how getattr() does
> > > that. Could you provide a brief explanation?
>
> > > 2) If I directly return the dictionary that results from setsubmit
> > > (tablename), what would the format of the return be and what should
> > > the variables in the form be named? I tried a couple of combinations
> > > (widgets, inpval, dspval) , but they all failed (widget) carried extra
> > > data (impval) or failed to display an <input> on update.
>
> > You only need widgets
>
> > <form>
> > {{=form.custom.widget.field1}}
> > {{=form.custom.widget.field2}}
> > {{=form.custom.widget.field3}}
> > <input type="submit">
> > {{=form.hidden_fields()}}
> > </form>
>
> > > 3) In thefields(), the value of curform is:
>
> > > <form action="" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post"><table><tr
> > > id="location_poleno__row"><td><label for="location_poleno"
> > > id="location_poleno__label">Poleno: </label></td><td>EBW 1234</
> > > td><td></td></tr><tr id="location_town_id__row"><td><label
> > > for="location_town_id" id="location_town_id__label">Town Id: </label></
> > > td><td>1</td><td></td></tr> .....
>
> > > and curform.record is:
>
> > > <SQLStorage {'electricprovider': None, 'update_record': <function
> > > <lambda> at 0x9ff80d4>, 'npolesize': None, 'notifydate':
> > > datetime.datetime(2009, 3, 27, 8, 9, 43), 'id': 2,
> > > 'specialprotection': None, 'city': 'East Brunswick', 'data1': None,
> > > 'zipcode': '08816', 'cableprovider': None, 'state': 'NJ', 'town_id':
> > > 1, ....
>
> > > Please notice that in both places, the value of town_id is 1 and not
> > > the value in the related table.
>
> > > When I set mydict = dict(form=curform) is was able to fix a syntax
> > > error 'mydict does not exist' but I'm not sure that's the right thing
> > > to do. However, the real problem is an error message that says
> > > curform.custom.widget is not iterable. Even if it fixes it, I'm still
> > > not sure what the variables in the form should be named.
>
> > I think you can do:
>
> > {{for fieldname in form.custom.widget:}}
> > <label>{{=form.custom.labels[fieldname]}}</label>{{=form.custom.widget
> > [fieldname]}}
> > {{pass}}
>
> > I do not think you need thefields since it only provides info that is
> > alredy in the form.
>
> > Not sure if this helps.
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