On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote: > The common way to do this is to not bother with the "somebody else is > editing this record" because it's nearly impossible with the stateless web > to determine when somebody has stopped browsing a web page. Instead, each > record simply has a "last modified on $TIMESTAMP by $USERID" pair of field. > When you read the record to display to the user, you stash these values > into the page as $EXPECTED_TIMESTAMP and $EXPECTED_USERID. If, when the > user tries to save the record, your web-server app updates the record only > if the timestamp+username+rowid match
This is much easier to implement than the locking mechanism since I already have the fields $EXPECTED_TIMESTAMP and $EXPECTED_USERID in the db! It looks quite sufficient for my use case. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
