On Tuesday 18 December 2001 11:05 am, Geoffrey Talvola wrote:
> At 12:50 PM 12/18/01 -0600, Ian Bicking wrote:
> >I've got a situation, the solution which I've used I'm not quite
> > happy with. I was wondering if someone else had a thought...
> >
> >Right now there are at least three ways in which a page can be
> > aborted -- it can require a login, you can get a permission denied
> > error, or you can do a redirect. Since I've started doing stuff in
> > awake(), this means I have to check in awake() if one of those
> > conditions is true, and abort immediately. Then writeContent() or
> > writeHTML has to abort as well.
> >
> >I found this awkward to do. I set two instance variables to tell
> >whether one of these conditions occurred, so that writeContent or
> >writeHTML would abort (with a redirect, writeHTML is aborted, but
> > for login or permission denied, just writeContent is aborted).
> >
> >Normally, I might use a try:except: to capture these situations, or
> > some other sort of factoring... but because awake() and respond()
> > are completely seperate, I don't know how to deal with this. I
> > can't optionally call (or not call) respond() from awake(). I
> > really hate having flag variables, and the logic becomes more and
> > more awkward as I add more exceptions to SitePage.
> >
> >So how have other people dealt with this?
>
> I'm using a flag instance variable that I set in awake(), and I've
> overridden respond() sort of like this:
>
> class SitePage(Page):
> def respond(self, trans):
> if not self.shouldSkipRespond:
> Page.respond(self, trans)
>
> The other option would be to modify WebKit so that there's some
> pre-defined exception that you can raise that will basically stop
> processing the servlet at that point and send whatever response has
> been accumulated so far. Seems useful to me. Patches accepted :-)
I've been reassigning writeContent like so:
self.writeContent = self.noOp
or: self.writeContent = self.writeLogin
or: self.writeContent = self.writePermDenied
This has the flexibility that you can determine what the page will
write and you still get your header, sidebar and footer. Note that
those parts (header, etc.) therefore need to be smart about unknown
users, permission denied, etc.
To set this up I think all that's required is that awake() have this
early on:
self.writeContent = self.__class__.writeContent
Hmmm, sounds like another Wiki topic.
-Chuck
_______________________________________________
Webware-discuss mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
