On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Cliff Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 16:21 -0700, Mike Orr wrote: > >> But then that gets into the issue of the site template. If the inner >> app should be shown within the global header and sidebar, then you'd >> have to inherit the site template -- which doesn't work well across >> apps, plus you'd have to know what variables to set for the site >> template. Or the outer app could have a controller ACTION (not a >> whole controller) that calls the inner app to get the page content, >> and then plugs that into its template. The action could emulate a >> WSGI server, possibly using WebOb's application-wrapper for >> convenience. > > Long ago the topic of portlet-style sites came up on this list and Ian > suggested using a subrequest and paste.recursive. Wouldn't a web helper > that could do a subrequest be a possible solution? Rather than the > plugin inheriting the site template, the site template would perform a > subrequest to retrieve the plugin's html.
It could. I'm not really a fan of subrequests, seems like a lot of overhead. But in some cases it may be the simplest solution. -- Mike Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
