[silva-dev] SilvaExternalSources / Check Boxes: bug

[Martijn Faassen]

Marc Petitmermet wrote:

> something is buggy with checkboxes support in SilvaExternalSources
> (cvs version of today, 09.04.2004, 18:10):
> 
> - after saving the external source the values of the checkboxes are 
> always shown as "1" in the editor regardless if the checkbox has been 
> set or not. at least the actual values of the checkboxes are stored 
> correctly although they are shown incorrectly.
> 
> - but as soon as you edit an existing external source all stored values 
> of the checkboxes are reset again to "1".
> 
> my workaround for now is to use radio buttons or listfields. but i would 
> prefer if the checkboxes would work properly.

We actually discovered this bug last week as well. We know what's wrong, 
though unfortunately I don't expect it's an easy fix, as I need to write 
some supporting code in Formulator.

The trouble right now is that Formulator has no way to turn something 
serialized as XML (text) back into the right value for Formulator 
itself. Thus even a value stored as the string '0' is interpreted by 
Python as the truth value.

We have used the same workaround (using listfields) here for our work on 
CSVSource.

Regards,

Martijn