On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 14, 2011 7:11:41 PM UTC-4, pbreit wrote:
>>
>> But vars=something() is not going to work, is it? In general you cannot
>> call a function if it does not take parameters (web2py restricts those for
>> serving requests only.
>
>
> I think that's backwards. You cannot access a function *via a URL* if it *
> does* take parameters (or if it starts with a double underscore), but
> nothing is stopping you from calling a function that does not take
> parameters. The something() function returns a dictionary, which is what the
> 'vars' argument to response.render is expecting. I think it should work.
>
yes, it works:
return response.render("%s/%s.%s" % (request.controller, "something",
request.extension),something())
>
>
>>
>> Of course the easiest and most correct way to do it is to redirect.
>>
>
> Redirect is only a little less code, and it ends up generating a new
> request. It also results in the URL changing, which may not be desirable.
>
> Anthony
>
redirect would create problems with ajax functions: see
http://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/detail?id=304
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Sebastian E. Ovide
