On 5 Aug 2013, at 2:32 PM, Dragan Matic <[email protected]> wrote: > Let's suppose that I want to disable my web app for a certain period of time > while I am updating the database and that I want to inform users that > maintenance is in progress? > 1. In models I can create a global var MAINTENANCE_IN_PROGRESS = False which > I could thange to True when I want to do some maintenance tasks. > 2. then in every function in every controller I could write something like: > > def controller(): > if MAINTENANCE_IN_PROGRESS: > Redirect_to_maintenance_message > else: > #do_controller_task > > Is there some smarter way to do it without checking if maintenance is in > progress in every function?
You can edit request (in your model) to go to a maintenance controller+function, assuming you can live with a single function. Alternatively, you could save the old controller+function in request and let your maintenance function look at it and be smarter (if necessary). -- --- 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.
