Thanks Joe

Not what I wanted to hear, but the right answer. I'm just going to have to
keep redis back leveled for now.

Jim


On Sun, Mar 31, 2019, 10:40 PM Joe Barnhart <joe.barnh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Looking at the rest of globals.py I don't think this approach will work.
> For one, it affects storing sessions in any database, not just redis.
> Since the table is declared with a "boolean" field I don't think its gonna
> like the string version of "False".
>
> I wonder why we don't have a simple minded dialect in DAL for redis.
> Admittedly, it's not a RDBMS so a lot of DAL just won't ever work on
> redis.  But it would have provided a clean place to map "booleans" to
> strings instead of bools in this case, making it easy to special-case redis.
>
> But maybe that would encourage people to complain that the implementation
> of the redis DAL dialect is too deficient.  Putting it in DAL would raise
> people's expectations of what it can handle.
>
> -- Joe
>
>
> On Sunday, March 31, 2019 at 10:19:20 AM UTC-7, Jim S wrote:
>>
>> I changed the following in gluon/globals.py and mine is working now.
>> But, I'm unclear on how to test to see if it is handling the locking
>> properly:
>>
>> dd = dict(locked=False,
>>           client_ip=response.session_client,
>>           modified_datetime=request.now,
>>           session_data=session_pickled,
>>           unique_key=unique_key)
>>
>> to
>>
>> dd = dict(locked='False',
>>           client_ip=response.session_client,
>>           modified_datetime=str(request.now),
>>           session_data=session_pickled,
>>           unique_key=unique_key)
>>
>> This makes all my stuff work (I'm still on Python 2.7 but I think the
>> problem has to do with the python redis client moving to version 3).
>>
>> Leonel - I think this relates back to an issue you commented on late last
>> year.
>> https://groups.google.com/forum/?pli=1#!searchin/web2py/redis%7Csort:date/web2py/PdquGF_9a2E/6VJpLqsnBgAJ
>>
>> At that time I just continued using python redis 2.10.6.  But, can't do
>> that forever.  Anyone able to test or improve upon the change I made
>> above?  Like I said, it works for me, but I don't know how to see if I'm
>> causing any other unforeseen damage.
>>
>> -Jim
>>
>> On Friday, March 29, 2019 at 7:49:03 PM UTC-5, Joe Barnhart wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Leonel --
>>>
>>> My brain refuses to put together the words "session locked field".  I
>>> understand the part of pickle smashing the values and encoding them as one
>>> string.  The bool has something to do with session locking?
>>>
>>> I've only looked at the web2py redis code in the most scant way as I
>>> wasn't planning to become a redis expert.  Sessions in redis could be
>>> important to me, tho, so I may need to set aside some time to dig into it.
>>>  (Storing sessions in cookies has been problematic due to the limited space
>>> for cookies in browsers.)
>>>
>>> -- Joe
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, March 27, 2019 at 4:49:25 PM UTC-7, Leonel Câmara wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It's not your values Joe, pickle serializes them as a string so they
>>>> would be fine. It's web2py session locked field which is True or False.
>>>> It's probably easy to fix this in redis_session.py
>>>>
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