Hi Anthony,
Thanks for your reply.
What i want to acheive is to restrict IS_IN_DB validator depending on the
value of another field. It can be done on controllers, but i couldn't do it
on model.
Here is an example:
- We have 2 departments: Letters and Numbers
- We have teachers assgined to only one department
- We have pupils assigned to only one department and optionally to a
teacher, so we want to restrict the list of possible teachers to the
department in common
def index():
db = DAL('sqlite:memory:')
db.define_table('department',
Field('name'), format='%(name)s')
db.define_table('teacher',
Field('department_id', 'reference department'),
Field('name'))
db.define_table('pupil',
Field('department_id', 'reference department'),
Field('teacher_id', 'reference teacher'),
Field('name'))
# populating...
if not db(db.department).count():
db.department.bulk_insert([dict(id=1, name='Letters'), dict(id=2,
name='Numbers')])
if not db(db.teacher).count():
db.teacher.bulk_insert([dict(name='TeacherA', department_id=1), dict
(name='Teacher1', department_id=2)])
if not db(db.pupil).count():
db.pupil.bulk_insert([dict(name='PupilA', department_id=1), dict(
name='Pupil1', department_id=2)])
db.pupil.teacher_id.requires = IS_EMPTY_OR(IS_IN_DB(db((db.teacher.
department_id==db.pupil.department_id)),
'teacher.id',
'%(name)s', zero=T('Choose one')))
form = SQLFORM.grid(db.pupil, user_signature=False)
return dict(form=form)
This doesn't work as intended becuase it lets you assign teachers from both
departments. I guess i'm doing a cartesian product instead of a filter...
If you replace
(db.teacher.department_id==db.pupil.department_id)
with
(db.teacher.department_id==request.post_vars.department_id)
then you have an empty teachers list. Probably because post_vars is empty
when you load the form?.
If you try to use lambda as you can do with 'represent', then something
weird happens and the dropdown dissapears:
db.pupil.teacher_id.requires = lambda x,row: IS_EMPTY_OR(IS_IN_DB(db((db
.teacher.department_id==row.department_id)),
'teacher.id',
'%(name)s', zero=T('Choose one')))
Maybe this cannot be done in model.
Regards!
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