No problem...you might also want to look at using a worker thread<http://chrismoos.com/2009/03/04/pylons-worker-threads/>though.
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Charlie Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks! That worked perfectly! > > -Charlie > > > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Alec Lyons <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Not a beaker expert, but I think if you tried calling save, *then*persist it >> would write to the disk without waiting for the action to finish. >> >> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Charlie Meyer <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I have a controller action that takes a while to perform, since it does >>> some heavy data processing to create analysis of data sets. I would like to >>> be able to update the user as to the progress of the action, but I am having >>> trouble. >>> >>> Currently, I have the long running controller action updating the beaker >>> session object with its progress, and some client-side ajax to fetch the >>> status from the session. The problem I am running into is that the session >>> object does not appear to be updated until the end of the request, so none >>> of the updates by the long running controller action get seen by the ajax >>> call. I looked in the beaker documentation and tried switching all my calls >>> from session.save() to session.persist() to force the session to immediately >>> save to the back-end, but it still doesnt work properly. >>> >>> Maybe I am going about this all wrong, but any help would be greatly >>> appreciated. >>> >>> -Charlie >>> >>> -- >>> 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]<pylons-discuss%[email protected]> >>> . >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> 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]<pylons-discuss%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > Charlie Meyer > > [email protected] > http://www.charliemeyer.net > > Department of Computer Science > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign > > -- > 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]<pylons-discuss%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en. > -- 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.
