[Zope-dev] The field converters (:int, :text, etc.)

[Chris McDonough]

The last time I had to mess around with it, IE didn't pass along any empty
form fields at all.  Is this still the case?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad Clements" <bkc@murkworks.com>
To: "Morten W. Petersen" <morten@esol.no>
Cc: <zope-dev@zope.org>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] The field converters (:int, :text, etc.)


> On 4 Feb 2001, at 15:59, Morten W. Petersen wrote:
>
> > IIRC, there was some talk about modularizing the field
> > converters (checkers) so that they could be easiliy modified
> > and added to.  Is there currently any efforts to solving
> > this problem?  If not, there's definently a need for it,
> > IMO..
>
> I agree. Each time I get a Zope update I have to edit Converters.py
>
> What I want is something like :empty_as_none
>
> So a float, int or date field will be passed as None if the fields are
blank,
> rather than having the converter raising an exception.
>
> ignore_empty doesn't work, because then the field isn't passed in the
> Record at all.
>
> I use SQLDict as the backend for all my forms (wow, it's great), so None
> really is needed for every field if its blank. If I have ignore_empty,
then that
> field doesn't get updated in the database, so if someone wants to blank
> out a field, they can't do it.
>
>
>
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