Sorry, when I replied I only saw Bruno's first reply. I like his option #3
as well.
Anthony
On Monday, September 17, 2012 3:06:51 PM UTC-4, Carl wrote:
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> Great idea. But if I use "Bruno option #3" and avoid adding other
> functions to the module I won't have to repeat myself.
>
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> On Monday, 17 September 2012, Anthony wrote:
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>> Maybe make a dictionary of functions, then map request.args(0) to the
>> dictionary keys to identify the right function to call (that way if someone
>> tampers with the URL, they can't call any function that's not in the
>> dictionary).
>>
>> Anthony
>>
>> On Monday, September 17, 2012 1:33:26 PM UTC-4, Carl wrote:
>>>
>>> I've got a request object coming to my Web2py app's controller function.
>>>
>>> request.args[0] is another function name e.g., blastoff
>>> request.vars are parameters e.g., Storage object: {'seconds':10,
>>> 'confirm' : 'okay'}
>>>
>>> how can I call blastoff with the parameters such that I can write
>>> blastoff as...
>>>
>>> def blastoff(seconds, confirm): ...
>>>
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