On 6/27/06, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 13:28 -0700, Tyson Tate wrote: > > I've found a better solution with signals and the dispatcher. The > > essence is that you raise a signal every time someone views the > > relevant page, for instance, a "Recent Flickr Photos" page. In the > > relevant models.py file, you'll have attached a function call to be > > called on the raising of that signal. That function should check when > > the last time it was run, if it was run more than X minutes ago, have > > it call the relevant Flickr synchronization code, or whatever else > > you want it to do. > > Not a good idea if the process takes any significant amount of time to > run (such as, for example, retrieving things of the Internet). It will > block the response back to the user.
You could though have a page that sends an XMLHTTPRequest to a different view, which can do the processing. Then the user won't experience any blocking at all. Jay P. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
