SQLFORM.factory creates a dummy DAL table via DAL(None). A change was made so that auto-validators no longer get applied to fields with DAL(None), so no fields in a SQLFORM.factory table will get the usual default DAL validators. Datetime fields typically get a default IS_DATETIME() validator (wrapped in IS_EMPTY_OR()), and that is what caused the conversion to a datetime object in the previous version of web2py. The IS_DATETIME() validator is no longer being added, so we no longer get the conversion.
This should be corrected somehow. I've posted on the developers list to get a discussion going: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/web2py-developers/aX6CiPi4Dh0. In the meantime, you can explicitly add the validator: SQLFORM.factory(Field('startzeit', 'datetime', requires=IS_EMPTY_OR( IS_DATETIME()))) Alternatively, you can do something like this: def sqlform_factory(*fields, **attributes): from gluon.dal import _default_validators db = DAL(None) db.validators_method = lambda f: _default_validators(db, f) table = db.define_table('no_table', *fields) return SQLFORM.factory(*table, **attributes) And then: form = sqlform_factory(Field('startzeit', 'datetime')) Anthony On Monday, September 11, 2017 at 3:53:52 PM UTC-4, mweissen wrote: > > What is the type of the result of a Field(...;'datetime') ? > > I think, it should be "datetime" (and I am shure it has been in version > 2.14.x), but web2py 2.15.4 delivers a "str". > > def dttest2(): > form = SQLFORM.factory(Field('startzeit', 'datetime')) > if form.process().accepted: > return \ > str(isinstance(form.vars.startzeit,datetime.datetime)) > return dict(form=form) > > > The result is "False" > > ​Regards Martin​ > > > -- 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.
