Thanks so much for the confirmation. I figured that I would get this kind of functionality (ala Globals); logically this made sense; so thanks for confirming what isn't super clear.
Cheers, John On Oct 18, 5:03 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Lorance schrieb: > > > Here's what I am wanting to do. > > > - When I create my widgets, I want to assign a special attribute like > > "handler=SomeObject.someClassMethod" which gets assigned to a list or > > dict that then is available to the controller for the next page > > request so I can write a very generic form/request/event handler. > > > So, I have this working well... however, my two questions are: > > 1. I can store this information in a globally defined list or dict and > > I find that it does persist between browser requests... I would have > > figured that it would be re-initialized every time. So, can a TG > > application, once loaded via CherryPy, maintain a persistent or static > > set of globals as I am seeing here? or am I seeing something that is > > more a bug and not a feature? > > Yes, it can maintian globals. > > > 2. If #1 is yes, is this safe? > > I'm unclear on what you want here. If it's static information that > doesn't depend on user input, it's safe. > > > 3. Lastly, since my method basically creates a dictionary or list in > > which the data is a pointer to a method defined as a classmethod.. > > does this value change or vary from user to user, request to request? > > I'm going to assume no for now. > > > Has anyone done anything like this in TG with globals? I would > > prefer not to store this information in the user session since it > > seems rather strange to store pointers to methods in such a place... > > and might be a bad idea to do so. > > See above - if it's static information, it's perfectly alright to do so. > > DIZE --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
