On 3 Aug 2012, at 5:23 PM, Vincenzo Ampolo <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 08/03/2012 02:53 PM, Anthony wrote: >> There's also request.global_settings.cronjob. > > Cool but where do I've request available? It's not at import time but > i've a request object in web2py.py -M -S milo > > So when can i know that request is a valid object? > > Thanks Niphlod for your help but the workaround of letting staff like > it's now is not feasible or i should wait 2 mins for each shell i open. > The external scheduler can be a solution though. But I want to try this > request method first...
At least for cron jobs, web2py constructs a fake request object. Have a look at request.env for some distinguishing characteristics. Maybe request should have a documented standard way of determining the source of the invocation. --
