When trying to figure out how to create a private function in a controller I first searched the web2py book and I spent a good amount of time looking for this. I eventually decided to search the Google group with success.
My ability to search/browse the web2py book is getting better but I'm still very new at it. Is this convention documented in the web2py book? I was looking in "the core" but I didn't find what I needed there. How can this be added and where would it go? Thanks, Matt On Sunday, March 16, 2008 at 2:40:14 PM UTC-7, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > Done in trunk! > > Massimo > > On Mar 16, 2008, at 4:07 PM, voltron wrote: > > > > > YESSS! Cool! I am for that :-)) > > > > On Mar 16, 9:55 pm, Massimo Di Pierro <[email protected]> wrote: > >> double underscore I can do. ;-) > >> > >> Massimo > >> > >> On Mar 16, 2008, at 11:13 AM, voltron wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>> I just noted that I voted for the wrong convention: > >> > >>> yes for double underscores "__" not for a single underscore "_" > >> > >>> :-) > >> > >>> On Mar 16, 5:04 pm, voltron <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> Hmm, I'm not sure Massimo, Imho, I would always consider a well > >>>> known > >>>> and defined Pythonic convention( everybody that uses Python > >>>> knows the > >>>> double underscore convention), I am sure that all of the new web2py > >>>> users like myself made the same mistake when trying to create > >>>> private > >>>> functions, this is a good thing:-) ! It would not even have to be > >>>> documented because its naturally pythonic, on the other hand we > >>>> have a > >>>> handful of users( judging from the number of registered users) > >>>> and an > >>>> AJAX convention that is not universal and self descriptive, i.e, > >>>> just > >>>> seeing a function called "_sendData" would not notify me > >>>> immediately > >>>> that it is an AJAX function, I would have done this, "ajax_sendData > >>>> ()" > >>>> which is self descriptive. > >> > >>>> I really respect the principle of not breaking Web2py, but is this > >>>> not > >>>> a bit too early for that? Web2py is very young and probably not so > >>>> widely deployed as the other frameworks, so this would be a > >>>> chance to > >>>> quickly implement such changes. Even Python itself would implement > >>>> code-breaking changes soon, most frameworks undergo such changes > >>>> too, > >>>> it is evolution. I seriously doubt that you would drive users away > >>>> when such changes are made, on the contrary. I think many would > >>>> like > >>>> web2py even more, I would definitely. > >> > >>>> I respect your opinion, but if you are uncertain, why not poll the > >>>> forum? You would know if people are against the changes then > >> > >>>> On Mar 16, 4:23 pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>>>> correction.... use > >> > >>>>> if request.function[0]=='_' and not request.function=='_TEST': > >>>>> raise > >>>>> HTTP(400,'some error') > >> > >>>>> since _TEST is the name of a "virtual" function called by admin > >>>>> when > >>>>> you click on [test] It is automatically generated when testing. > >> > >>>>> Massimo > >> > >>>>> On Mar 16, 10:20 am, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>>>>> The more I think about this the more I see a problem. Some > >>>>>> people for > >>>>>> example are using the leading _ to indicate a controller > >>>>>> function used > >>>>>> for an ajax callback. In order to do what you asked I would break > >>>>>> their code. Even without breaking code people would still need to > >>>>>> upgrade the admin app to see the effects. This would break my > >>>>>> promise > >>>>>> of backward compatibility. Why don't you simply say, at the > >>>>>> top of > >>>>>> your controller? > >> > >>>>>> if request.function[0]=='_': raise HTTP(400,'some error') > >> > >>>>>> and so you set your own convention. > >> > >>>>>> Massimo > > > > > -- 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.
