Check out http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/04/the-core#Execution-environment and http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/04/the-core#Cooperation.
You might also consider whether the shared functionality can be abstracted into Python modules that can be imported by multiple applications. Anthony On Thursday, January 5, 2017 at 12:54:59 AM UTC-5, Brendan Barnwell wrote: > > I have a situation where I have (or am going to have) multiple > applications running on a single web2py instance. Each application will do > its own thing, but they are all using the same databases. Some of the > applications may serve as backend API endpoints where certain kinds of data > can be retrieved. Other applications may sometimes want to make calls to > these endpoints to get the data and use it in their own operations. > > So what I'm wondering is: is there any way for one application to call a > controller in another application and get the raw data that WOULD be used > to build an actual HTTP response, but without actually going through the > network? That is, suppose I have and endpoint /app1/controller1/get_data > and another /app2/controller2/do_something . Inside do_something, I want > to get the data that get_data gets. > > Currently I have get_data set up as a JSON service. I could certainly > make the request to the other endpoint, but that involves a number of extra > steps: generating an outgoing HTTP request, serializing any data to passed > with it, generating the incoming HTTP request object, deserializing the > request data, then serializing the response and deserializing it again when > it's received. What I really want to do is to just call the function > get_data AS IF a request had been submitted, but have everything happen on > the server, without any network requests actually happening. As far as I > can tell, I can't in any way "import" the get_data function from the other > app, because if I call it, it won't have the magic environment set up > (e.g., "db" won't exist for it to do its database queries). I would even > be okay with "pretending" like I was doing a request, as long as web2py > could somehow realize that the app I want to call is running on the same > web2py instance, and call it "directly" instead of submitting a network > request to itself. > > I realize that this architecture involves apps that are more > interdependent than they would be in a "by the book" web2py project. But > basically the idea is that the functionality of the apps is independent, > and in theory they should work if running on different servers, by making > real requests. It's just that, IF they are running on the same server, I'd > like to communicate between them without going through the network, to > improve performance. Also, I can't really change the architecture since > it's for a project I'm working on but don't ultimately control. > -- 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.
