I am trying to use a "m/d/yyyy" format for a date field. I've also created a custom widget for the field. Everything seems to be working fine except when a form is submitted with validation errors. The returned form value for the date reverts back to "yyyy-dd-mm", even when the form was submitted with a date value in 'm/d/yyyy' format and the validation error was caused by another field. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong. However I was able to fix the problem by adding two lines to sqlhtml.py.
It seems that this line (942): >> widget = field.widget(field, value) would return my custom widget markup with an input value with correct date format but line 944: >> self.field_parent[row_id]._traverse(False,hideerror) would change the input's value to a date format of 'yyyy-dd-mm' The lines I added to fix this became 944 and 945: >> if field.represent and self.field_parent[row_id].vars.get(field.name, >> False): >> self.field_parent[row_id].vars[field.name] = >> field.represent(self.field_parent[row_id].vars[field.name]) I don't really want to fork this so if I could get some feedback as to what I may be doing wrong or whether this fix are something equivalent will make it into the trunk, that would be greatly appreciated. FYI, I've got a week's experience in web2py and python so take it easy on me :)
