Are you calling db.commit() to commit your inserts/updates in the database. That happens automatically during HTTP requests to your app, but you have to do it explicitly in scheduler tasks.
Anthony On Thursday, December 19, 2013 6:34:02 PM UTC-5, Richard Brown wrote: > > I am using the Scheduler to perform some control functions and so have an > autonomous function, called by the Scheduler via 'poll.py', in a module > called 'utilities.py'. This scans some databases to decide what to > do, and this seems to work fine (I have (hopefully) coded around any > potential database conflicts). > > However, I want to report a value back from my function to display in a > View. How should I do this? Ideally I would like to update a database > record from my module function which I can interrogate and modify from the > view, but nothing I have tried so far seems to find its way back. I use > db=current.db in the function, but although this allow the function to get > parameters from the database, anything I write back does not modify the > actual database available to the View, or in 'Database Administration'. > > I have also tried using a session variable but that also appears as 'None' > when I read it in the view. The function is not called from anywhere so > there is no obvious way of using a return value. > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- 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.
