validators are only for crud / SQLFORM.
If you want to verify the record you must do so manually before insertion.
(value, error) = IS_NOT_EMPTY()(myvalue)
# value is the same as myvalue, but in the case of validators such as
IS_UPPER() it is converted to upper case.
# error is either a blank string for no error, or a string containing
the error message.
(value, error) = IS_NOT_IN_DB(db, 'mytable.myfield')(myvalue)
So with this you could iterate through the list of values.
for v in db.mytable.myfield.requires:
etc etc...
This could be useful if it were included in the new dal...
Would you take a patch to allow db level validation on insert Massimo?
-Thadeus
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:36 AM, Christopher Steel
<chris.st...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It appears that validation only works via forms. I want to insert a
> value one time but from db.py, what would be the best way to do this.
>
> I tried this, but the same value gets inserted over and over again...
>
> db.define_table('mytable',
> Field('myfield'))
>
> db.mytable.myfield.requires = [IS_NOT_EMPTY(), IS_NOT_IN_DB(db,
> 'mytable.myfield')]
>
> record_id = db.mytable.insert(myfield='myvalue')
>
> Merci!
>
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