Stephan Richter wrote: > On Thursday 12 March 2009, Martin Aspeli wrote: >> I'm writing a custom file widget for z3c.form that works like the >> Archetypes file widget that Plone uses and the formlib widget in >> collective.namedfile. That is, after you've uploaded a file once, you're >> given a radio button to decide whether to upload a new file, or leave >> the existing file in place. >> >> I can't quite figure out how to do this, though. I've tried to override >> the extract() method on the widget to look in the request for the >> special marker that says "user chose not to change the file". However, I >> don't know what to return. If I return NOVALUE, then validation fails >> (if the field is required). If I try to look up the field value from the >> data manager and return it, it ends up setting the field back on itself, >> which is wasteful. > > All great questions and I am not sure I have good answers. I think you want > a "NONEWVALUE" or so marker and have the validator honor it correctly. > > If you make a proposal to enrich the API, I'll probably agree to it. :-)
That's good, but I need this by yesterday... ;-) Could I maybe create a custom validator that checks for a magic constant? If so, how? I have both a custom field (in the zope.schema sense) and a custom widget. Martin -- Author of `Professional Plone Development`, a book for developers who want to work with Plone. See http://martinaspeli.net/plone-book _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )