On 12/18/05, Graham Ashton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to access the cherrypy.request.params dictionary from within > my controller, but it doesn't appear to exist. I realise that this > dictionary is made available as **kwargs, but I wanted it available via > a global variable so that I could write a function to handle it. I may > be able to achieve the same result with decorators, but I'm not sure > yet.
Is it cherrypy.request.paramMap? (You might try that... I can never remember for sure) > The cherrypy docs imply that they should all be available directly, so > I'm wondering if it's been renamed in TurboGears. When I call "print > dir(cherrypy.request)" inside my controller all I get back is this: > > ['__attrname__', '__delattr__', '__doc__', '__getattr__', '__init__', > '__module__', '__setattr__', 'purge__'] I believe that this object is a special object, because it needs to store its data distinctly for each thread. Note that there are __getattr__ and __setattr__ hooks, so you never know what you'll get when you look up an attribute there. Kevin
