In general you can pickle an object and store in blob or text field in web2py. Your problem is not this but this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1412787/picklingerror-cant-pickle-class-decimal-decimal-its-not-the-same-object The problem is with one (or more) of the objects your pickling. Which classes are you pickling? On Friday, 13 March 2015 16:30:39 UTC-5, Gray Kanarek wrote: > > I'm working on a website for a game, the engine of which involves a > heirarchy of custom classes. I need to find some way to store the gamestate > between sessions, so that logged-in users can pick up a game from one of > their associated characters from where they last saved. > > My original idea was to pickle the game engine and store it in a text or > blob field in my db.characters table, so that each character would have > their associated gamestate stored in the same table. However, when trying a > text field, the pickled object wasn't escaped correctly so it threw an > SQLite error; using a binary pickle stored in a blob field, it threw a > "<class> is not the same as object" PicklingError. > > Are there ways to get around either of these errors? Or is there some > other way I should be storing the game sessions? There are enough variables > and nested objects that storing them in individual fields of a table would > be a real pain; I thought about trying to integrate ZODB, but I have no > idea if web2py plays nice with object databases. > > Any suggestions? Thanks! > -- 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/d/optout.
