I suppose you could put web2py in one directory, and then symlink to an application folder in some other directory. But it seems odd that you somehow don't have control over how the application code gets updated. There are lots of mechanisms by which you could update application code. For example, if you need to ensure that after the files in an application folder are updated some additional special file gets injected into the folder, you could presumably use a script or an automation tool such as Ansible to manage the whole process.
Actually, if all you need is to set some configuration options, you could do that by putting them in (a) a Python module that gets imported by the app, (b) a configuration file that gets loaded via AppConfig, (c) OS environment variables, etc. The point is, the details depend on exactly what aspects of the system need to be made modular as well as the mechanism by which app code will be updated. And the solution(s) will likely be largely independent of web2py, relying more on standard Python mechanisms (e.g., imports), OS features (e.g., symlinks), and various development/deployment tools (e.g., bash scripts, git, Ansible, etc.). Anyway, if you have a particular setup and workflow in mind, perhaps you can explain how it would be achieved when using an alternative web framework (either another Python framework, such as Django or Flask) or a PHP framework. Then maybe we can see if there is an analog for web2py. My understanding is that we can redefine the application in > wsgihandler.py, so create a wrapper over it. However, I am puzzle because I > do not know what information is available at this stage (regarding > pathinfo, etc.) and where will I store the information that I need to pass > to the wrapped application. > See https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3333/#environ-variables. You should be able to add items to the environment dictionary that ultimately gets passed to gluon.main.wsgibase, which would then be available in request.env. Anyway, for simply setting some configuration options, this approach is overkill. Just use a Python import, configuration file, or OS environment variables. Anthony -- 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.
