I think what some people do is put *one* object on the request, such as request.api, as an instance of a class with a bunch of @reify properties and methods such as request.api.db.
This lets you avoid the kind of pollution and potential collisions that you warned about. —Paul > On Jan 29, 2016, at 7:35 AM, Torsten Irländer <tors...@irlaender.de> wrote: > > Hi all, > > The request is available almost everywhere is a pyramid application. This > makes it seductive to use the request to pack many more properties to the > request und (mis?)use it as a carrier for some kind of "dependency injection". > > I already added the current DB connection (which seems to be a widley used > pattern) to it, and some other small thing. But I am wondering how the > request is meant to be used. Is it OK to use the request for such things? I > tend to say that adding more and more properties to the request (even if they > are related to the request) is some kind of misuse and not intended by the > developers. > > What do you think? > > For those who are interested in some background of this question: This > questions arised when talking about how to implement Feature Toggles. See > https://github.com/ringo-framework/ringo/issues/6 > > best regards, > Torsten > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "pylons-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to pylons-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:pylons-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to pylons-devel@googlegroups.com > <mailto:pylons-devel@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/pylons-devel > <https://groups.google.com/group/pylons-devel>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pylons-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to pylons-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/pylons-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
