Hi, You see, session, request and response are not globals "per se", they depend on the session you're responding to. From what I can tell the controller functions are "wrapped" inside an environment just before they're called and that's why you have those variables around. So, the way it's built, you do have to pass them on to the modules.
Anyways, I guess I'm not the best person to answer your question, I've come to this conclusion because I had the same problem and I took a look at the web2py source code (I can see that happening in main.py and compile_app.py). I expect one of the experts around to have a better explanation for you. Regards, Deodoro Filho On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Jonathan Benn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Hi all, > > > Is there a simple way to access the dynamic web2py global variables > (db, session, request, response) from inside a user defined class? > > If I were to define the class inside the controller, then I'd have no > trouble. However, if I define the class in a separate module (i.e. in > the "modules" subdirectory) then I'm not able to access these globals > anymore from inside the class. > > All I've been able to find so far is passing the global variables as > arguments to the constructor/methods, but this seems inelegant to me > since db, request, etc. are _global_ variables. Accessing them is kind > of like accessing logging or any other Singleton... > > > Thanks in advance, > > --Jonathan > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
