fixing problems around objectwidget

zopefoundation · Sep 12, 2012 · b055437 · b055437
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diff --git a/src/z3c/form/browser/objectmulti.txt b/src/z3c/form/browser/objectmulti.txt
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ just cry about it in the HTML:
             <div class="widget">
               <input class="text-widget required int-field"
                      id="foo-0-widgets-foofield" name="foo.0.widgets.foofield"
-                     type="text">
+                     type="text" value="">
             </div>
             <div class="label">
               <label for="foo-0-widgets-barfield">

diff --git a/src/z3c/form/object.py b/src/z3c/form/object.py
@@ -222,7 +222,13 @@ def applyValue(self, widget, value=interfaces.NO_VALUE):
         """Validate and apply value to given widget.
         """
         if self.context is None:
-            widget.value = value
+            converter = interfaces.IDataConverter(widget)
+            try:
+                widget.value = converter.toWidgetValue(value)
+            except TypeError:
+                # we're not checking the value, because there's no context
+                # in case of problems just set a bad value
+                widget.value = value
         else:
             context = None
             if not self.ignoreContext: