You should not use represent for this purpose. You should use internationalization. If your language is en, create an en language files and translated the date formats. There are 4 of them.
On Aug 21, 11:33 pm, RipRyness <ripryn...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 :)
