Formulator Field - Override

  Description

    Note: the Override tab is being phased out in favor of the TALES
    tab.

    Sometimes you'd like a field property to be dynamic instead of
    just a value filled in in the 'Edit' tab of the field. If you fill
    in the name of an 'override' method for a property in the Override
    tab, that method will be called whenever you (or the code) asks
    for the value of that property using get_value(). Properties which
    are overridden are shown between square brackets ([ and ]) in the
    main Edit tab, and the value of the property in the edit tab will
    be ignored. To stop using an override for a particular property,
    remove the method name in the override tab.

    An override method should return an object of the same type as the
    property field would return after validation. For instance, an
    override method for a StringField would return a simple string,
    for an IntegerField it would return an integer, and for a
    CheckBoxField it would return true or false (or something that can
    be interpreted that way).

  Example

    A good example of the use of the override tab is the 'items'
    property of a ListField; frequently you may want to get these
    items from elsewhere, for instance from a database. In this case
    you would fill in the name of the override method for 'items' that
    retrieves the right data.

    The 'right data' in this case is that which validation of the
    builtin field ListTextArea would return. This is a list of tuples,
    one tuple for each element. Each tuple consists of two strings;
    the name that should be displayed to the user for that item, and
    the actual value that will be submitted.

    This for instance is a Python script 'random_numbers' that will return
    ten random numbers as the elements::

      # random_numbers
      import random
      result = []
      for i in range(10):
        number = random.randint(0, 100)
        tuple = str(number), str(number)
        result.append(tuple)
      return result