On 11/4/07, Carl Karsten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A view has a loop - each iteration may take 3 seconds, and it will loop > 20+ > times, so 1 min of processing. > > Is there some way to dump stuff to the browser page each loop?
No. The only way to send stuff to a browser is to respond to an HTTP request, so if you want the browser to see regular status updates you'll have to set it up so that the browser makes periodic requests for status. I've never used this technique but here's a page describing a way to do it (along with pros and cons and questioning of do you really want to do this): http://webtips.dan.info/refresh.html Note that if you do this, the time-consuming processing you currently have in your view will have to be moved elsewhere, because the browser sees nothing until your view returns an HttpResponse. Your view will have to kick off this other processing in a separate thread or process, and then return a response describing status. When subsequent status requests come in, they will have to somehow be able to find out how far along the process is...you'll have to work out how to do that, whether by storing status in the database or a file or something. Actually even if you don't do the refresh thing, I think it would make sense to move that long-running code out of the view and provide for responding to queries on status. A page that takes a minute to load is going to seem broken, even if users know it is supposed to take a long time. In the year since they last ran it they're going to have forgotten how long it takes, and despite any warnings to "Click DOIT only once!" they're going to go back and click DOIT again.... Karen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
