There is large amount of that data that why I have this concern... Is cleaning the sessions/* files delete data put in session?
Richard On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
