[Zope3-Users] records converter

[Dmitry Vasiliev]

Stephan Richter wrote:
> On Friday 17 March 2006 03:23, Andrius Armonas wrote:
>> did "records" converter behaviour changed anyhow in zope3 since zope2?
> 
> No, this code has not been touched as far as I remember.

About 2 years ago I made a massive refactoring for 
zope.publisher.browser.BrowserRequest and added some tests based on the 
implementation.

But nobody I know
> uses ":records", so it is probably under-tested.

Maybe we need some "converters simplification" so for example we can get rid of 
some unused converters?

>> If we have this:
>>
>> <input type="text" name="a.x:records:int" value="5" />
>> <input type="text" name="a.y:records:int" value="51" />
>> <input type="text" name="a.x:records:int" value="6" />
>> <input type="text" name="a.y:records:int" value="61" />
>>
>> Then after form submit we get (in zope3):
>> a: ['x': 5, 'y': 51, 'x': 6, 'y': 61]
> 
> This is not valid Python.

It's just custom representation for zope.publisher.browser.Record object.

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