Thanks Alessandro. SQLAlchemy won't work in my case - there's some processing involved beyond the scope of the database, which obviously I didn't mention in my original post.
The before_render hook however works like a charm. (thumbs up icon here) Uwe On Sun, 06/15/2014 06:56:09 PM Alessandro Molina wrote: > Best solution is probably to rely on SQLAlchemy relationship features to > fetch them. If you emit a "joined" relationship the comments for the posts > loaded in current page will automatically be loaded with the blogs. > > About accessing the paginated data, it is accessible inside the > before_render hook, just apply a @before_render decorator before the > @paginate decorator so it gets executed after pagination. > > On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Uwe Schroeder <[email protected]> wrote: > > Does anyone know whether it's possible to access a decorator's attributes > > inside the decorated method? > > > > My problem: > > > > I have blogs and the blogs can have comments. The blogs are the collection > > used in the pagination decorator., i.e. > > > > @paginate("blogs", items_per_page=3) > > > > def blogs(self): > > return dict(blogs=fetchblogsfromdatabase()) > > > > What I want to do is grab the blog comments only for the blogs currently > > displayed on the paginated page. Aka: > > > > @paginate("blogs", items_per_page=3) > > > > def blogs(self): > > blogs=fetchblogsfromdatabase() > > comments=dict() > > > > for x in blogs[on_current_page]: > > comments[x.id]=grab_comments_for_x.id_blog() > > > > return dict(blogs=blogs, comments=comments) > > > > Obviously the decorator grabs the "blogs" collection after the controller > > returns to hand the resulting subset to the templating engine. > > > > Is there a hook I could use to inject the comments between decorating and > > rendering? > > > > Well, the other method would probably be an ajax call after rendering > > without > > the comments to grab the comments and inject them into the page. > > > > Any bright ideas on how to accomplish this? Ideally I'd like to access the > > "paginate.items" attribute inside the controller method - but at that time > > the > > decorator doesn't even know anything about the items to be rendered yet... > > > > Thanks for any helpful hints anyone here might have. > > > > Uwe > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "TurboGears" 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/turbogears. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" 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/turbogears. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
