yes and no. You need a controller that returns tha page and then you need to request the data via ajax or via a LOAD(... ajax=True) helper.
On Thursday, 3 December 2015 15:33:04 UTC-6, Brian Craft wrote: > > A large query is causing the client (browser) to become unresponsive, > because web2py doesn't return anything to the client until the controller > function has completed. > > It needs, instead, to return a chunked response header immediately, with > the data to follow. From the controller I can return an iterator, which > will send a chunked response, but doesn't help because the query still runs > in the context of the controller function, before web2py can return > anything. > > If I defer the query (return an iterator that lazily runs the query), the > query fails because the database connection is closed after the controller > returns. > > Is there any way to get web2py to return a header to the client before the > db query is run? > -- 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.

