On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Paul McLanahan <pmclana...@gmail.com> wrote: > This may be adding undue complexity, but I wanted to throw it out and > see what you thought anyway. I think a possible solution to Russ' last > two points may indeed be overloading the "messages" template variable. > What I'm thinking is that we keep the message_set (of course) and add > the new "request.messages.*" API, but completely remove the messages > part of the auth context_processor and have the default backend for > the new system pull both for the first release (purely for backward > comparability). Messages from the old message_set system could get a > default level in the new system. This shouldn't be an issue since the > people using it will likely be existing projects where they won't be > using any level information in their templates. We couple this > combined backend with settings that will allow you to easily disable > the DB part of the backend (or make it clear how to and strongly > suggest switching backends), and provide a setting for the default > message level that defaults to INFO.
As a developer I'd rather make the conscious switch from one technology to the other. IMHO I don't think the effort and potential confusion of making everyone's templates "just work" is worth it. Chris, I know you have some personal experience trying to get session- and user-based messages to work together, so I think we'd benefit from any wisdom you might be able to offer. :) Toby -- Tobias McNulty Caktus Consulting Group, LLC P.O. Box 1454 Carrboro, NC 27510 (919) 951-0052 http://www.caktusgroup.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
