I'm not sure there is any need to clean up individual sessions unless you are storing a large amount of data. On the other hand, you might want to clean up expired session files once in a while -- there is a script for that.
Anthony On Tuesday, November 3, 2015 at 1:43:47 PM UTC-5, Richard wrote: > > Hello, > > Let say I put some data in session.var1 for reuse in case user want to > download the content of the page with the help of buttons for the purpose > which call the same function with one more prameter telling the controller > function which file format the user expect... > > So you can check if file format parameter is there and pass the > session.var1 to the sub funciton : > > if request.vars.file_format: > export_to_file(session.var1) > else: > del(session.var1) # Here I can't delete var1 from session in case a > new call is made to the controller for the first time... > > But, what to do with session.var1 in case the which will remain there if I > load any other app pages?? > > Should I create a clean_up_session()? > > Something like this : > > def clean_up_session(): > if session.var1 and request.function != 'my_controller_func' and not > request.vars.file_format: > del(session.var1) > > Which I would need to executed at every request (can't be put in model > file for that purpose)... > > But I am curious what is consider the best practices regarding session > variables ? > > Thanks > > Richard > -- 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.
