diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index affb16e0..0d2d6928 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Version 1.99.7 (2012-04-23 11:26:23) dev
+Version 1.99.7 (2012-04-24 08:37:24) dev
diff --git a/gluon/dal.py b/gluon/dal.py
index b7e704c5..54ea00ea 100644
--- a/gluon/dal.py
+++ b/gluon/dal.py
@@ -5977,6 +5977,8 @@ def bar_encode(items):
     return '|%s|' % '|'.join(bar_escape(item) for item in items if str(item).strip())
 
 def bar_decode_integer(value):
+    if not hasattr(value,'split') and hasattr(value,'read'):
+        value = value.read()
     return [int(x) for x in value.split('|') if x.strip()]
 
 def bar_decode_string(value):