This makes sense. This was what I was wondering. Thanks for the answer!
On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 a topic in the > Google Groups "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/web2py/GlGgNaNN7ZI/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- --- 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.
