You can do:
if auth.user and "some other condition":
db.define_table('thing',Field('name'))
so the table is always in the DB but web2py only sees it conditionally.
Sometimes I do that for speed reasons.
On Wednesday, 25 June 2014 09:52:09 UTC-5, Niphlod wrote:
>
> there's no such thing (conceptually) as "tables that exists only if the
> user is logged in".
> the concept is "a user logged in can read/update/delete/etc some tables".
> That's what you do in "controllers".
> tables are "defined" (not accessed) instead in "models", so are available
> to everybody, scheduler included.
>
> On Wednesday, June 25, 2014 4:46:42 PM UTC+2, Cory wrote:
>>
>> I am trying to access tables that require the user to be logged in. Am I
>> able to access these tables within my scheduler functions?
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 2:55 AM, Niphlod <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> why on hearth should you define tables based on the fact that a user is
>> logged-in or not ?
>> Scheduler functions are executed in a world that does not care for the
>> usual request/response/session environment, and surely they do no count to
>> be "logged in"...
>>
>> On Wednesday, June 25, 2014 12:53:57 AM UTC+2, Cory wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I am trying to access tables within my scheduler function. The tables I
>>> am trying to access require "@auth.requires_login()".
>>> *Am I able to access these tables within my scheduler.py model file?*
>>> right now I am passing table row fields as parameters
>>> to the scheduler function and it is very messy.
>>> In scheduler.py I have tried to include:
>>>
>>> db = DAL("postgres://postgres......blah)
>>> from gluon.tools import Auth
>>> auth = Auth(db)
>>>
>>> if auth.is_logged_in():
>>>
>>>
>>> thanks!
>>>
>>>
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