On Friday, 30 March 2012 14:38:39 UTC+11, Limedrop wrote: > > Mmmmm. Picking might not be the issue. I would try to take javascript > out of the equation first. What if you simulated the javascript in a > second server-side controller? See if it can retrieve, update and save the > session? > > I now have a second controller which adds a unique entry each page refresh. When I visit the controller pages, the entries are properly added and retained. When I call via AJAX, the entries are not, despite being added locally (eg printing the elements to console after adding).
I thought it might be that I am trying to add request.vars in the ajax call, but it doesn't remember even string literals being added. Confused... ahhh... But when I add another (primitive) variable to the session and change that within the (server side of the) ajax call everything starts working properly. So, presumably web2py doesn't notice changes to the instance so chooses not to update session, changing the primitive causes it to update all the session variables including the instance.
