I hear you and I'm happy (or not, not sure) to not being alone ranting about web2py's code quality and lack of tests. this was a serious bug that should have had the effect of retiring web2py's release until it was fixed (or at least loudly advertised).
On Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 5:08:24 AM UTC+2, Leonel Câmara wrote: > > Ok I've fixed it: > https://github.com/web2py/web2py/pull/1294 > > And now I hate you guys with a tremendous passion. It took me a huge > amount of time for a fix that ended up being a oneliner. > > html.py is horrible, Cthulhu level horrible, it couldn't be harder to > follow its execution flow if it had goto statements and afterwards you > minified it. > > To understand the bug first you need to look at the _validate method of > the INPUT helper. > > Then you also need sqlhtml.py and see that it sets some default validators > > Then look dal.py where those defaults are defined (no it's not inside the > pydal package) > > Then you need to really understand the IS_EMPTY_OR validator which > thankfully I do because I have been making tests for validators. > > Someone please contribute to the book how important the null argument is > to IS_EMPTY_OR because otherwise you're getting a None which will be a NULL > in the database since IS_EMPTY_OR doesn't know what kind of field it's > dealing with. > > > > > -- 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.
