Brad Clements writes:
> One thing that has been bothering me is that I can't easily test my
> ZSQL Methods if they accept a date type unless I completely fill all the
> date arg types.
>
> For example, if the sqlmethod has argument type
> startdate:date=''
>
>
> and in the body I have
> <dtml-if startdate> ...
>
> When i use the test form, I can't leave the date field empty, otherwise I
> get a conversion error from Converters.field2date()
One solution would be to use a valid (special) date as default
value and test against it in the body.
> I see that converters required: exists, but does that imply that all other
> converters allow an empty string to return None? Or do we need to add
> an explicit "optional" type?
I think, we should have an explicit "optional" because that
is the most clear way to say, this argument is optional.
Dieter
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