-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/27/2011 02:40 PM, Chris Withers wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm writing a SQLAlchemy SessionExtension based on this pattern: > > http://www.sqlalchemy.org/trac/browser/examples/versioning/history_meta.py?rev=7253:3ef75b251d06#L171 > > So, in the listener, I want to record the user that made the change. > How should I get hold of the currently authenticated user? > > The only way I can think of is calling > pyramid.threadlocal.get_current_request inside the before_flush method > of the VersionedListener, but having read: > > http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/1.0/narr/threadlocals.html#why-you-shouldn-t-abuse-thread-locals > > I'm worried that I'm being evil. Am I being evil? > How else can I get hold of Pyramid's notion of the current user id > inside a SessionExtension?
The "approved" way to share request-specific information is to just pass the request: in this case, the obvious candidate is to make the request an attribute of the event. Reaching around to the thread-local should be seen as a workaround for not being change the event code, if that happens to be the case. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk1r1C8ACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ7msACgy4aAvKqy/qLuJN3mLhhn4xZm nmgAni4Z8Tt6sC1JxBh46dJ0p+GAnuEO =ClRq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to pylons-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to pylons-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-devel?hl=en.
