You could use a SQLCustomType field: http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/6#Custom-Field-types-(experimental) .
Anthony On Tuesday, July 24, 2012 8:34:07 AM UTC-4, Omri Har-Shemesh wrote: > > > Hi web2pyers, > > very often, I have a field in the table which has to hold a complicated > value (most often numpy arrays). The way I implement it is that I use > "text" as the type of field, and then simply pickle.dumps(my_value) when > I save the field, and then pickle.loads(value_from_db) to access the field > again. > > My suggestion is simple - create field that automatically pickles the > values > it gets and unpickles them on extraction. Is this already implemented? > Do you have other suggestions on how to implement this so that I won't need > to pickle every time I access the table? > > Best wishes, > Omri > --
