Now I understand.
Short answer. It cannot be done in the sense there is no API for it
Long answer. It can be done this way:
### define table post and set the format
### based on a field that does not exist
db.define_table('post',
Field('title',length=256),
Field('body','text',requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY()),
Field('author',db.auth_user),
format='%(title_short)s',
)
### define the field as a virtual field computed
class ComputedFieldsForPost:
def title_short(self):
return self.post.title[:40]+'...'
db.post.virtualfields.append(ComputedFieldsForPost())
### define the referencing table
db.define_table('comment',
Field('post',db.post,writable=False,readable=False),
Field('author',db.auth_user,writable=False,readable=False),
Field('body','text',requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY()))
### modify an internal of the validator to
### fetch data required to compute the virtual field
db.comment.post.requires.fields=['post.id','post.title']
This kind of ugly but powerful.
On Jan 7, 12:25 pm, "KONTRA, Gergely" <pihent...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sure.
>
> db.py:
>
> db.define_table('post',
> Field('title',length=256),
> Field('body','text',requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY()),
> Field('author',db.auth_user),
> )
>
> db.define_table('comment',
> Field('post',db.post,writable=False,readable=False),
> Field('author',db.auth_user,writable=False,readable=False),
> Field('body','text',requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY()))
>
> In the example I provided, in the appadmin of comment, auth_user is
> displayed as a dropdown. I would like to do that for comment.post
> also.
>
> The format option make it possible to hack up some fields of the
> database, but it is not so flexible to display for eg. computed values
> of the post table.
>
> thanks in advance
> Gergo
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> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 16:35, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> > Hi Gergo,
>
> > appadmin has nothing to do with t2 and t2 was deprecated long ago.
>
> > I guess you can still define db.post.represent but I am not sure what
> > do you want to do with it. What behavior do you expect? Can you
> > provide a concrete example?
>
> > On Jan 7, 9:31 am, "KONTRA, Gergely" <pihent...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Yes, AFAIK appadmin is a T2 thing.
>
> >> So, I wonder how can one rewrite the line below using
> >> db.post.represent (still that is more flexible)
>
> >> db.define_table('post',
> >> Field('title',length=256),
> >> Field('body','text',requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY()),
> >> Field('author',db.auth_user),
> >> format='%(title)s')
>
> >> db.post.represent = ?
>
> >> thanks
> >> Gergo
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