Add an argument to the function: foo(bar):  Only functions with no 
arguments can be called from the outside world.

On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 3:57:56 AM UTC-6, Wei Li wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> This could be a silly question:) . I am going to build up some 
> application logic. So I will create a few class and functions. Looks like 
> it's not very good to put these code under controllers. Although from the 
> manual, it says controller folder is for application logic and workflow. 
> See if I have a function
>
> def foo():
>      return <SOME_SENSITIVE_INFORMATION>
>
>
> I don't want to put this function in controllers/default.py because people 
> can see the return value of foo() through http://myapp/default/foo which 
> is not expected. I just want foo() to be a normal function instead of a 
> controller function.
>
> So my question is where is the best place to put my own application 
> logical codes indeed? There are three places that I can put python codes 
> into:
>
>
>    - *models* describe a representation of the data as database tables 
>    and relations between tables.
>    - *controllers* describe the application logic and workflow.
>    - *modules *are other optional Python modules.
>    
>
> Looks like to me *modules *is the best place. But the new problem is the 
> global objects and classes are not visible to files in modules unlike files 
> in models/controllers. I am not sure which packages need to be imported. It 
> will be convenient if *modules *folder can be treated same as 
> models/controllers?
>
> Any suggestion is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Wei
>

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