my understanding is that when a request is made to a web.py app, the GET or POST method of the python class that maps to the requested URL is invoked.
for instance, in the "hello world" example (http://webpy.org/cookbook/helloworld), any GET request will have its response rendered by the GET method of an instance of the hello class. my question is: does web.py re-instantiate the appropriate page class for each request, or does it re-use instances it's already created? i.e., would a new instance of the hello class be created for each request in the above example, or would instances of hello that've been created get re-used? the reason i'm wondering is that i'm trying to figure out whether i can/should store request specific information (e.g., a session object) on the page class instance. i wasn't sure, so i don't do that at the moment (e.g., i have a common base page class, and it invokes a page rendering method that each of its subclasses implements, and it currently passes in the session object used by that render method, but it feels like it'd be cleaner to have that session object be an instance variable if possible, i.e. i'd refer to it as self.session_obj instead of passing session_obj into my render method each time it's invoked). maybe another slightly less wordy way of asking the above question is this: in the "hello world" example, could the GET method store some request-specific info on its self parameter without interfering with the self parameter that's passed by calls to that GET method when other requests are made? if whoever's responding could point me to the part of the web.py codebase that actually executes this behavior, that'd be great too. thanks in advance! -john -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web.py" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/webpy. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
