As part of an HTTP request.
On Wednesday, July 31, 2013 11:11:19 AM UTC-4, Anthony wrote:
>
> Is the module being accessed as part of an HTTP request to the app, or via
> an external script?
>
> On Wednesday, July 31, 2013 9:50:56 AM UTC-4, Mark Finkelstein wrote:
>>
>> Well here's some code:
>>
>> def tags_link_insert(self, table_id, table_name, tags):
>> if not isinstance(table_name, str):
>> raise TypeError("table_name must be of type str")
>> if not isinstance(tags, (list, tuple)):
>> tags = [tags]
>> tagstb = self.tags_table
>> linkstb = self.links_table
>> for item in tags:
>> if not isinstance(item, str):
>> raise TypeError('tags must be of type str')
>> tag_item = self.db(tagstb.tag==item).select(tagstb.id).first
>> ()
>> tag_id = tag_item['id'] if tag_item else tagstb.insert(tag=
>> item)
>> ret = linkstb.insert(table_id=table_id, table_name=table_name
>> , tag_id=tag_id)
>>
>> self.db is set in the __init__ as follows, where tdb is set to the
>> defined db in db.py after which a call is made to the class:
>> def __init__(self, tdb, tables, orderby=None, user_signature=False,
>> hmac_key=None, autopopulate=True):
>> self.db = tdb
>>
>> When I look at ret and tag_id, I get valid return values, but when I look
>> at the database, I can see that no commit was made.
>>
>> I read about exec_environment, are you saying that I can only access the
>> db object through the environment? It seems
>> Auth<http://www.web2py.com.ar/examples/static/epydoc/web2py.gluon.tools-pysrc.html#Auth>
>> does
>> not do this. I may be wrong though?
>>
>> On Wednesday, July 31, 2013 9:03:17 AM UTC-4, Anthony wrote:
>>>
>>> Show some code.
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, July 30, 2013 11:19:49 PM UTC-4, Mark Finkelstein wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I've been using current to access the db in my modules, but I would
>>>> like to modularize my modules a bit so that I don't rely as much on
>>>> current. I was wondering why db seems to not be accessible from the
>>>> modules
>>>> when passed by a caller and saved through the init statement. In other
>>>> words, if I were to call Module(db) or as in Auth(db), it seems that if
>>>> the
>>>> module isnt able to commit to the db. Auth clearly is able to do this, and
>>>> I believe I am following the Auth as an example well enough, but I thought
>>>> there might be some peculiarities to modules that I am not aware of as
>>>> clearly auth accesses the environment in a special way as well. I dont
>>>> think there should be a difference between using self.db or current.db;
>>>> but
>>>> I may be mistaken? It seems when I change current.db to self.db, that is
>>>> when problems arise.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you in advance!
>>>>
>>>
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