[Webware-discuss] FEComponent and FormEncode problem

[Hancock, D. \(DHANCOCK\) <DHA...@ar...>]

First, thanks for all the assistance so far with ZPTKit and FEComponent
and FormEncode. We're getting close to understanding things.

A developer in our group (not a list member) asked me to post the
following questions:

	The FormEncode documentation and the FEComponent frequently
state that we can call validators.to_python, which apparently returns a
requestDict that we are in dire need of.   After looking at all the
source, we noticed that validators.py doesn't have a to_python method
but instead has a _to_python() for each validator that inherits from
FancyValidator.   We tried using the to_python() in the
api.py->FancyValidator class but the arguments are different.  For
example:
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	The to_validator in api.py, FancyValidator.py, etc are all
defined as:
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	    def to_validator(value, state):
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	The FEComponent.fecomponent.py tries to make a call to
validators.to_python(NestedVariables, rawFields), which doesn't exist.
The other problem is that NestedVariables is a class in
variabledecode.py that is derived from api.FancyValidator() so the
to_python here is doing something much different.  I guess what I'm
trying to say is that this was doing some magic we are unable to
reproduce.
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	Do you know if we can find an older version of FormEncode or
better yet, point us in a direction where we can see what the above
to_python is really doing?
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	One thing to note is that we had to make changes right out of
the box to get FormEnocode working since htmlform.py was trying to
import something from validator and not validators.

Thanks, and
Cheers!
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David Hancock | dha...@ar... | 410-266-4384=20