Thanks Nik. Your right and I think that will work. Thanks for the suggestion.
Henry On Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at 4:22:08 PM UTC-5, Nikolas Stevenson-Molnar wrote: > If I understand correctly what you want, then I think sessions will help > you here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/http/sessions/ > > def view_1(self, request): > request.session['display_key_list_updated'] = True > > def view_2(self, request): > if request.session.get('display_key_list_updated'): > do_something() > > _Nik > > On 5/13/2015 2:13 PM, Henry Versemann wrote: > > I have a list of one or more items being returned back to my application > as a response from a call to an API. In this particular part of the process > depending on the data keys selected by the user, if any some data fields > will be formatted automatically. When that happens I need to add the keys > to those new automatically-generated fields to the list of data keys > originally entered by the user. In the case where there's only one item > being returned, this isn't a problem, but when I get back multiple objects > in my response I only want to add the new data field keys to the display > key list once. The flag will be initialized to false at the beginning of > the process which processes all of the responses. So the only way I could > think of to do this would be to setup some kind of global variable that can > be checked and when set to "false" then and only then update the display > key list with the keys to the new data fields. Then also at the same time > set the flag to "true", so the update doesn't happen again for each and > every subsequent item in the list of response objects. At least not until > the next request is sent and its response is being processed. > > So what are my options for creating a global Boolean variable(or any > other global variable type for that matter), for accomplishing the above > task? > > So far I've tried using a "global" keyword when setting up a variable, > as well as declaring a variable in a globalvars.py file, importing the > file and trying to reference it something like this: > > globalvars.display_key_list_updated = True or False > > But I keep getting errors of one sort or another with each way I've > tried so far (mostly exceptions.NameError). > > This is my first attempt at trying to setup and use some kind of a > global variable, so its kind of frustrating, and I'm probably making it > harder than it is, but my lack of experience is getting in the way. > > Thanks for the help. It is much appreciated. > > Henry > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/8a1f173b-de34-4e34-8c34-e1512b46a05d%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/8a1f173b-de34-4e34-8c34-e1512b46a05d%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/10bd75dd-1e56-4c43-984e-80a58a6e0585%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
