What sort of solution do you envision? On Tuesday, January 29, 2013 11:02:36 PM UTC-5, Paul Whipp wrote: > > Thanks for that. > > If I use a plug in I can replace the default.py controller file in admin > in its entirety, if my reading of that section is correct, a plugin > solution still involves a lot of repetition (although at least we're down > to one file) and a hole in future update behaviour. > > On 30 January 2013 13:42, Anthony <abas...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Maybe look into plugins: >> http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/12#Plugins >> >> >> On Tuesday, January 29, 2013 6:39:44 PM UTC-5, Paul Whipp wrote: >>> >>> I'm new to web2py but not to Python or web application frameworks. >>> >>> I love the dry pythonic nature of web2py. I'm less enamoured by its use >>> of magic but the convenient REP makes this mostly forgivable. I'm giving >>> web2py a go on a couple of real projects. >>> >>> As I use emacs, it looks like it would be straightforward to modify the >>> admin app to pass a file to an emacs service (if available) for editing. >>> Its also easy to copy the admin application, call it myadmin and make the >>> change there. These are both bad things to do because; in the first case an >>> upgrade will overwrite my change (yes I use source control but its still >>> going to be a pain), and in the second case I've copied a large slice of >>> code and lost the benefit of upgrades in myadmin which could lead to all >>> sorts of problems in the long term. >>> >>> What I want to do is specialize the admin app such that I just use my >>> specialised default controller with its single specialized edit method (the >>> latter specialisation is a little tricky because the method is a bit >>> monolithic but you can see what I'm aiming at). >>> >>> The result would be a specialization of the admin app called myadmin >>> containing virtually nothing but the specialized default controller and >>> edit method. I cannot see any obvious way to do this. Am I going to have to >>> make like a PHP programmer and copy the whole application to make one small >>> change or is there some cool way to unravel the magic a bit and point the >>> myadmin file lookups to admin, except for my controllers/default.py? >>> >>> For the time being I'll stick with navigating the file structure and >>> invoking emacs directly, so my question is more of a "How would I". I've >>> tried google to no avail and I'll be happy for an RTFM response if you can >>> point me at the FM (or an example) that covers this. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Paul >>> >> -- >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "web2py-users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to web2py+un...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > >
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