I'm trying to implement a unique field code for a dexterity content type and added already a validator:
class IPatient(model.Schema):
code = schema.TextLine(
title=_(u"label_patient_code", default=u"Tax/Fiscal Code"),
description=_(u"Patient unique Tax/Fiscal Code"),
required=True)
@invariant
def validate_code(data):
"""Checks if the patient code is unique
"""
... (catalog search) ...
However, since this validator lives in the interface, I can not check if the current value of the field was changed after edit or not. Therefore, my validator fails obviously for each edit.
What would be the best approach to check if the value was changed or not?
I have already seen the data converters in z3c.form.converter. Would this be the right way to handle that or in a custom edit view in handleApply or extractData?
Something from an old ZTK application, which might help you:
@invariant
def validate_email_and_user(self):
"""Check for user."""
context = getattr(self, '__context__', None)
if context is None:
# We are in an AddForm
return checkForUserlogin(self.email)
# We are in an EditForm
if context.email == self.email:
# nothing has changed
return True
# Changes in editForm. Test if new userlogin is not assigned
return checkForUserlogin(self.email)
Looks a bit like a hack, but too simple to reject it! And of course it works just perfectly!
However, I thought there's a fancy adapter or something, simply to write more code and achieve the same result... What to do now with the sparse time...?
