scrapy/docs/experimental/ref/newitem/fields.rst

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Item Fields

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.. module:: scrapy.newitem.fields

Field options

Every Field class constructor accepts these arguments.

default

The default value for the field. See :ref:`topics-newitem-index-defaults`.

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Field types

These are the available built-in Field types. See :ref:`ref-newitem-fields-custom-fields` for info on creating your own field types.

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TextField

A unicode text.

This class overrides the following methods from :class:`BaseField`:

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.. method:: from_unicode_list(unicode_list)

   Return a unicode string composed by joining the elements of
   ``unicode_list`` with spaces.

   For more info about this method see :class:`BaseField.from_unicode_list`.

IntegerField

An integer.

DecimalField

A fixed-precision decimal number, represented in Python by a Decimal instance.

FloatField

A floating-point number represented in Python by a float instance.

BooleanField

A boolean (true/false) field.

DateTimeField

A date with time, represented in Python by a datetime.datetime instance.

DateField

A date, represented in Python by a datetime.date instance.

TimeField

A time, represented in Python by a datetime.time instance.

Creating custom fields

All field classes are subclasses of the :class:`BaseField` class (see below) which you can also subclass to create your own custom fields.

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You can also subclass a more specific field class, say :class:`DecimalField`, to implement a PriceField, for example.

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BaseField class

The base class for all fields. It only provides code for handling default values, not any particular type. It cannot be used directly either, as its :meth:`BaseField.to_python` method is not implemented.

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The default argument (if given) must be of the type expected by this field, or any type that is accepted by the :meth:`BaseField.to_python` method of this field.

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For example:

class NewsItem(Item):
    content = fields.TextField() # correct, no default value
    author = fields.TextField(default=u'Myself") # correct, with default value
    published = fields.DateField(default=23) # wrong default type (will raise TypeError)

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.. method:: to_python(value)

   Convert the input value to the type expected by this field and return
   it.

   For example, :class:`IntegerField` would convert ``'1'`` to ``1``, while
   :class:`DecimalField` would convert ``'1'`` to ``Decimal('1')`` and so
   on.

   This method is not implemented in the :class:`BaseField` class, so it
   must always be implemented in all its subclasses, in order to be usable.

   This method should raise ``TypeError`` if the input type is not
   supported, and ``ValueError`` if the input type is support but its value
   is not appropriate (for example, an integer outside a given range).

   This method must always return object of the expected field type.

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.. method:: from_unicode_list(unicode_list)

   Take the input list of unicode strings and convert it to a proper value
   with the type expected by this field. If no proper value if found,
   ``None`` is returned instead.

   The default behaviour is to return the value of the first item of the
   list, passed through the :meth:`to_python` method, or ``None`` if the
   list is empty::

      return self.to_python(unicode_list[0]) if unicode_list else None

   This default behaviour is provided because it's the more common one, but
   it's typical for :class:`BaseField` subclasses to override this method,
   such as the :meth:`TextField.from_unicode_list` method.

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.. method:: get_default()

   Return the default value for this field, or ``None`` if the field
   doesn't specify any.
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