It's not clear exactly what you want to make modular, and what elements of the system need to be unmodifiable. If you want everything within a given application folder inside the /web2py/applications folder to be modifiable but need some unmodifiable component to be able to modify the request and/or response, you might want to consider WSGI external middleware <http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/04/the-core#External-middleware>, which is the standard means for wrapping a WSGI application.
But depending on your use case, it might also be sufficient to simply include a special model file in the app that sets up the configuration on each request -- you just have to ensure that the update mechanism doesn't allow that file to be overwritten or deleted. Anthony On Saturday, June 18, 2016 at 11:11:25 AM UTC-4, Dominic Mayers wrote: > > The use case that I have in mind is that I create a wrapper web2py > application over another web2py application that will be updated regularly > by a third party. I do not want to have to update the wrapper at each > update. The specific use case that I have in mind is that the wrapper > application only sets the location of a configuration file and then calls > the actual application, which uses this configuration file. However, never > mind this specific use case, because the objective here is very standard > and general - it's the usual concept of modularity: the web2py application > is like a module that you can update without having to change the wrapper > application. How can we do that in web2py? It's perfectly fine if the > web2py "application" is not exactly an application as long as it can be > edited as an application and just need to be plugged in a simple wrapper > application. This is very easy to do in PHP: you simply include the PHP > script. If needed, you reset the current directory before the include. Is > there an equivalent with web2py? > -- 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.
