[Zope3-dev] Possible bug in editform

[Jim Fulton]

Garrett Smith wrote:
> I think this is bug, but wanted to get feedback from the list.
> 
> When you update an object and the form has widget errors, any values 
> that were successfully updated by widgets (i.e. no errors) are committed 
> to the database.
> 
> I suppose this could be viewed as a feature -- the form applied whatever 
> changes it could. But this behavior surprised me -- I would expect that 
> either all modified values are updated, or none are.

This is definately a bug.

> As to the solution, I have a get_transaction().abort() in the edit form, 
> where it handles the widgets errors.

That will work.

A functional test for this would be great. :)

Jim

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