by the way - FF 3.6.6 seems to ignore request.ajax
as it behaves as if I haven't changed user() function at all ???

On Aug 20, 11:36 pm, Jurgis Pralgauskis <[email protected]>
wrote:
> hello, by default, if some function needs auth, w2p gives back some
> text/html:
> When I work with components ajax way, I don't want my content parts to
> get mangled with it...
> 1) if I am not logged in, it would flood my tiny content area with big
> login page clone :)
> 2) in my case, I want my current content (of target div) to stay in
> place if I don't have permisions,  (and new  content should replace it
> only if accessible).
>
> so I made a small patch, You can test it 
> hearhttps://web2py-gae-test.appspot.com/auth_for_web2py_components/defaul...
> its default new app with several changes in
> /controllers/default.py : user()
> /views/web2py_ajax.html  : web2py_ajax_page()
>
> is it a good way? or how would be better?
>
> /controllers/default.py
>
> def user():
>     if request.ajax:
>         result = auth()
>         if not auth.user:
>             return "ERROR" +"<br> You should %s first <br>\n" %
> ( A('login',  _target="blank", _href=auth.settings.login_url).xml())
>         if isinstance(result, str):
>             response.flash = result
>             return "ERROR"
>         return result # no dict(form=result)
>     else:
>         return dict(form=auth())
>
> /views/web2py_ajax.html
>
>     'success': function(text) {
>         if (text.startsWith( "ERROR" )) {
>           jQuery('#'+target).prepend( text.substr( "ERROR".length ) );
>         }
>         else {
>             jQuery('#'+target).html(text);
>         }

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