Sorry. Stupid me. I responded from my phone and I did not see your entire post.
Ignore my post and thanks for the recipe. :-) Massimo On Monday, 26 March 2012 22:47:24 UTC-5, Limedrop wrote: > > Huh? I'm sorry but I don't understand. > > On Mar 27, 4:28 pm, Massimo Di Pierro <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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).
