Thanks very much, that made it. I couldn't find documentation about
the extension=False option for the URL function, it would be nice to
have it in the book.
Greets.
On 23 ago, 18:47, Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 23, 2011 12:14:43 PM UTC-4, Álvaro J. Iradier wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I've created a component mycomponent.load to be used with the LOAD()
> > method. But inside the mycomponent.load I want to have a link to
> > another function in the same controller.
>
> > When I do: {{=URL(r=request, f='otherfunction')}}, the .load extension
> > is automatically added, so I end up being linked to the nonexisting
> > URL "http://.../mycontroller/otherfunction.load";.
>
> > Is this the intended behavior? I can guess there is something about
> > the extension from this fragment of the book:
>
> > "If you LOAD a component having the .load extension and the
> > corresponding controller function redirects to another action (for
> > example a login form), the .load extension propagates and the new url
> > (the one to redirect too) is also loaded with a .load extension."
>
> > but is there a way to remove the .load extension when using URL inside
> > a component?
>
> Your component isn't redirecting, so this is not due to the propogation of
> the .load extension upon redirect. However, the URL function will
> automatically use the extension of the current request if the extension
> isn't specified (unless the extension of the current request is html). Since
> the request that loads the component has a .load extension, the URL function
> will automatically add a .load extension as well. To avoid this, just
> specify an explicit extension (e.g., extension='html'). Note, if you want
> the link to point to an html page, but you don't want the resulting URL to
> actually include the .html extension, then you can explicitly set
> extension=False. In that case, web2py will default to requesting the .html
> view (as it always does when there is no url extension), but it won't show
> .html in the URL.
>
> See near the end of this section in the
> book:http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/04#URL.
>
> Anthony
