you cannot.
On Monday, 26 March 2012 21:09:49 UTC-5, Limedrop wrote: > > Just in case any of you want to do this...I've written a routine that > enables you to save a Query/Expression object in the session. > > I have a controller that uses a form to build a relatively complex > query and I want other controllers to use that query to generate > reports and graphs. I initially explored saving the query in the > session as a string, but it just wasn't working for me so I bit the > bullet and wrote a seralization routine that takes a Query object and > extracts it into a dictionary strucuture. There's another function > that does the reverse. > > It's all here in this slice: > http://www.web2pyslices.com/slice/show/1489/save-query-in-session > > It needs more testing for edge cases (I just don't know enough about > the DAL to do all of that). I've written it as a module, but > ultimately it would be nice to have something like it as a method > within the gluon.dal.Query class itself? Better yet, get the > framework to automatically invoke it when saving a Query/Expression to > session (like it does for rows). >
