On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:00 AM, GP <puri.gau...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a view which generates a table (table_view) of the most recent > entries entered in the Test table of the database. I have the option > of querying the database and render the table based on the user > criteria as well > > Something like this: tests = Test.objects.filter(field1 = .......) > > The search form is passed as a GET request method. > > I have a second view which uses this dynamic data retrieved from the > database and provides it as a csv (csv_view). For this to happen I > save the variable 'tests' as a global variable and then access it in > my csv_view to generate the csv file. > > On my dev server this never caused a problem but as soon as I ported > this on production I realized that as different clients hit the same > table_view the global variable "tests" changes as the state changes > and the csv generated are for different search criteria. > > I know that using the global variable is not a good idea but was a > quick fix when I was writing this view. I am not sure how else to pass > the query from the table_view to the csv_view otherwise. > > Thanks in advance for any insight on this issue. > > ~G > > > > What you want to do is abstract the machinery that creates the queryset into a seperate function, that way you can take the GET vars in both functions and get a queryset from them. FWIW I've been working on a project to do something similar here: http://github.com/alex/django-filter/tree/master
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