auth.user is stored in the session and is not refreshed from the database on every request, which would be inefficient. Presumably you don't typically drop your db tables in production.
Anthony On Sunday, August 4, 2013 4:58:40 PM UTC-4, Mark Finkelstein wrote: > > Yes, I thought this was so, my issue is more with the fact that after > dropping the databases, this seems to give an invalid value, as shown in my > first post? I may be wrong. > > On Sunday, August 4, 2013 3:07:46 PM UTC-4, Anthony wrote: >> >> If the user is not logged in, auth.user will return None, so you can't do >> auth.user.id. Instead, you should use auth.user_id, which will return >> None if not logged in. >> >> Anthony >> >> On Sunday, August 4, 2013 12:04:16 PM UTC-4, Mark Finkelstein wrote: >>> >>> I get the following error for trying that: >>> print db.auth_user[auth.user.id] >>> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'id' >>> >>> I thought `auth.user` is supposed to be used to check if the user is >>> logged in? >>> >>> On Sunday, August 4, 2013 10:35:14 AM UTC-4, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: >>>> >>>> If you are not logged in db.auth_user[auth.user.id] is None. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sunday, 4 August 2013 09:10:09 UTC-5, Mark Finkelstein wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I have two lines of code that read as follows: >>>>> >>>>> if auth.user: >>>>> if db.auth_user[auth.user.id]['image']=='' or db.auth_user[auth. >>>>> user.id]['image']==None: >>>>> >>>>> Recently, while logged in, I dropped all the tables, refreshed the >>>>> page and then got an Internal Error saying >>>>> >>>>> if db.auth_user[auth.user.id]['image']=='' or db.auth_user[auth.user. >>>>> id]['image']==None: >>>>> TypeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute '__getitem__' >>>>> >>>>> I'm guessing it has to do with cookies saving the session, where the >>>>> web2py side recognizes what seems to be a session and building auth.user >>>>> based off of this, but I'm not quite sure why auth.user is built without >>>>> a >>>>> query check of the database? I was wondering why this is? >>>>> >>>> -- --- 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.
