[Zope3-Users] Lists dont accept default values

[Frank Burkhardt]

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 06:18:48PM +0100, Florian Lindner wrote:

[snip]

> > I wrote a schema like this to have a list of objects on a content object:
> >
> >  class IMyContent(Interface):
> >     mynumbers=List(
> >        title=_(u"Cool Numbers"),
> >        required=True,
> >        value_type=Int(
> >        	title=_("integer")
> >        )
> >        default=[1,2,3,5,7]
> >     )
> 
> I think the default property expects one item of your list, so either 1, 2, 3, 
> 5 or 7, not all of them.

No it doesn't. default=1 generates this error:

 ConfigurationError: ('Invalid value for', 'mynumbers', "(1, <type 'list'>)")

> If you want to define the set of selectable values you maybe rather want to 
> use a Choice field and specify the values property. Or set a Choice field as 
> value for value_type.

I don't really need Int as list items but some more complex objects.
This works quite well - except of the missing default.

Regards,

Frank