thanks for the reply. my other alternative is to recreate the SSH session everytime i jump into a new function. i just need to work out how to call these functions in the controller using ajax and remaining in the view.
any ideas? On Jul 8, 12:51 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > On 7 Lug, 16:11, Jacques van der Merwe <vanderme...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > greetings all, > > > i'm looking for some advice regarding using ajax to call a function, > > from a view within the same controller. so for example, i'm in the > > view /app/controller/view1, and from the view 'view1' i would like to > > call another function/view from within 'view1' without leaving > > 'view1'. i hope this makes sense. :) > > This can be done but does not solve your problem below because.... > > > to explain the scenario in a little more detail. when i access > > 'view1', i instantiate an object which is an SSH client. this object > > needs to be available to all the functions within the controller, in > > order to maintain it's state (an active SSH session). > > This cannot be done. In a production environment the web server starts > and stops processes and threads at will. You cannot preserve the state > of an SSH connection. You need a separate process running in > background that does this and communicates with the app somehow, > perhaps via xmlrpc. > > > > > i would like to > > do this without leaving the view i arrived on 'view1', and update that > > same view based on results/states of that object. i'm hoping that ajax > > can help out with this. > > > thanks for reading!
