[Zope3-Users] z3c.form - howto ignore the context for single widgets in an Edit form?

[Christophe Combelles]

Maybe the best way to have a password validation would be to let the 
PasswordWidget display two password fields and check itself the values are the same?

Christophe Combelles a écrit :
> Hermann Himmelbauer a écrit :
>> Hi,
>> I'm creating a simple user-administration, 
> 
> Hi, I'm currently doing exactly the same thing :)
> (user management with z3c.form, and the class for my users derives from 
> zope.app.authentication.principalfolder.InternalPrincipal )
> 
>> which requires the user to type in the password and a password 
>> confirmation. For that, I have an interface which contains the 
>> attributes "password" and "password_confirm". Of course, only the 
>> password is stored as an object attribute.
>>
>> When I now use form.EditForm for editing this object, z3c.form raises 
>> an error as it cannot find the required attribute in the context for 
>> the "password_confirm" widget.
> 
> I'm not sure this is a good idea to have "password_confirm" in the 
> interface, because it would mean that your user has two passwords (from 
> an interface point-of-view). The password confirmation should just be 
> part of the form validation. Maybe you have to manually add a field in 
> the form (I'm just going to try that).
> If you really want to have both password in the interface, you have to 
> implement both attribute, and the password_confirm can just be a 
> property whose 'get' retrieves the password and whose 'set' just checks 
> that the value (that should actually be a hash) is the same as the 
> 'password'.
> 
> Christophe
> 
>>
>> What's the suggested way to circumvent this problem?
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Hermann
>>
> 
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