Massimo, good news to me. It shoud be in the book!
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Massimo Di Pierro <massimo.dipie...@gmail.com> wrote: > The fact is, you can do both. If you want the values to be evaluated > on insert, just do > > Field(...,default=lambda: f()) > > instead of > > Field(...,default=f()) > > If you want lazy evaluation you have to be explicit. > > On Jan 27, 4:51 pm, Vinicius Assef <vinicius...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Bernd Rothert <roth...@googlemail.com> >> wrote: >> >> > Multiple inserts for the same request should get unique uuids of >> > course, so we need a function here. >> >> I faced this problem some time ago. >> >> Default values defined in models are not assigned in INSERT time, but >> in REQUEST time. >> >> So, if you have a loop with insert inside it, all records will have >> the same default values. >> >> This is a web2py feature, in spite my thought explained that time that >> it should be different. When you talk about database, default values >> should be evaluated as in SQL INSERT: in insert time. >> >> -- >> Vinicius Assef.
