If you just need to store data for a single user across requests, you can store it in the session (each user has a separate session). But if you need to store data from multiple users and then process it all together, you can store it in the cache: http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/4#cache.
Anthony On Monday, May 7, 2012 11:27:30 AM UTC-4, cyan wrote: > > > Hi group, > > Is it possible for one to store incoming user data (e.g. those submitted > by users on a page) in memory, manipulate them in memory, and send them > back with web2py? Or do I need to external modules/libraries to do that? So > far, it seems by default all user submitted data are written to database in > web2py. > > More specifically, I want to implement this sort of logic on the server > side: the server waits for a pre-defined number of pieces data from > different users, and once all the data are in, the server processes the set > of data, saves the results in db and sends them back to respective users. > > The most obvious way I can think of is to keep (and track) the incoming > data in memory and only write to the db after they're processed. Is this > something that we can do using the existing functionalities of web2py? > Thanks! >
