edgarsmolow wrote:
> On Jul 14, 12:17 pm, kochhar <[email protected]> wrote:
>> edgarsmolow wrote:
>>> Our website generates PDF documents on-the-fly based upon database
>>> content. The user who created the document should be able to view it,
>>> but not other users, since the documents often contain private
>>> information. A web page on a Pylons site will contain link(s) to the
>>> user's document, where each link is an anchor element.
>>> Where should the documents be stored on disk: outside of the Pylons
>>> directory tree? If outside, configure a system variable or an Apache
>>> setting (alias)?
>>
>> I'd store them on disk outside the pylons directory and add configuration
>> your
>> app for their locations.
>
> Excellent!
> One more question:
>
> Where / how is that configuration set up?
The config is set in the development.ini or production.ini files. Under the
[app:main] section, you can add another entry like:
myapp.pdfdocs_dir = /path/to/pdf/docs
Then in lib/app_globals.py store the config:
class Globals:
def __init__(self):
self.pdfdocs_dir = config['myapp.pdfdocs_dir']
Finally, in your pdfview controller you can access the location using,
g.pdfdocs_dir
>>> What is the best way to construct the anchor elements? Something like
>>> this (where pdfdocs is aliased)?
>>> <a href="/pdfdocs/ABC12345.pdf">My Special Document</a>
>>> Or, perhaps like this?
>>> <a href="/viewer.py?docid=ABC12345">My Special Document</a>
>>> and let viewer.py return the contents of ABC12345,pdf if the user is
>>> authorized to view it?
>>
>> How about adding a pdfview controller and creating a route which maps
>> /pdfdocs/:docid to pdfview? Your links will look like the former but you'll
>> get
>> the functionality of the latter.
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