On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 11:53 PM, Niphlod <[email protected]> wrote: > wait a second ..... you may be missing an important bit. > DAL has no introspection whatsoever for retrieving existing tables if you > have not defined them. > That doesn't mean that you have to define tables at every connection (it's > easy, but let's assume you don't want to). > When you define tables on an empty database, some .table files are created > in the databases/ folder . > They are pickles of the table structure, the same one DAL uses to compare > with the existing model and - optionally - do a migration. > Once you have those .table files, you can skip the define_table() statements > giving auto_import=True to the DAL connection (obviously the database uri > has to be the same one with the tables in it). The only thing you may need > is to pass along the folder where the .table files are with the folder > parameter . > > PS: an oauth2 implementation has been achieved by michele, it's a few days > away to be included in the web2py source . > https://github.com/web2py/web2py/pull/57
Wait, what, seriously?! :( I can't see that pull request ATM (github is under maintenance), but I did post an announcement here on the web2py list over 8 days ago… Might've been nicer to tell me then. Anyway, I have around 30 custom exceptions built on the gluon.http.HTTP class, so will review the patch once github is back online and see what I can integrate… I guess -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

