Hi Adam,

I am suprised you need to define the tables again. I would expect you would 
open access to the database via a call to the DAL and then use an insert 
command to add more information, or is that what you meant?

regards

Gavin

On Tuesday, 10 May 2016 09:54:53 UTC+1, Adam Drzewiecki wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> I'm writing a similar application - i'm logging clients events in database.
> I used homemade task queues to run listener. I start whole project with 
> bat:
>
> start C:\Python27\python.exe web2py.py -S Test -M -R applications/Test/
> private/server.py
> start C:\Python27\python.exe web2py.py
>
> Point of using DAL and homemade task queues is:
>
> Create once in db.py:
> db = DAL(...)
> db.define_table(...)
>
> and in your listener every time you want to use it:
> db = DAL(...)
> db.define_table(...)
> db.commit()
>
> Is that what you meant?
> Adam
>
> W dniu niedziela, 8 maja 2016 15:48:23 UTC+2 użytkownik Gavin Kenny 
> napisał:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have been watching web2py for some time and really like it. I have 
>> worked through a few basic examples but this is my first "real" project. I 
>> am looking at making a simple Log manager, where I have a python listener 
>> that parses incoming logs and then loads them into the database and then 
>> use web2py as the front end. I would like to use the DAL as it then makes 
>> migration between databases much easier if I need more performance etc. 
>>
>> From reading this list and the book it would appear that I should spawn 
>> the listener using the scheduler as this exposes the db instance etc but I 
>> am really feeling my way and unsure if the scheduler is more for kicking 
>> off specific tasks that run and then stop or if something that will sit and 
>> run for ever is OK.
>>
>> Any pointers on how to achieve this would be gratefully received.
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Gavin
>>
>

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