Essentially it is another app. However, it still needs to talk to the other
apps' DBs, and one must still be able to LOAD the app's views in other apps.
Is this possible? Is there some documentation on inter-app coding
somewhere? I need to CRUD and LOAD.
Thanks,
On Thursday, May 2, 2013 11:24:51 AM UTC-7, Anthony wrote:
>
> If it's self-contained, you might consider putting it in another app.
>
> Anthony
>
> On Thursday, May 2, 2013 11:44:58 AM UTC-4, b00m_chef wrote:
>>
>> Correct. That way, if you have your webapp built from components, your
>> main controller/model/view folders will not look like a complete mess of
>> hundreds of files.
>>
>> At the moment, the current component & plugin structure only works for
>> web apps containing less than 20 components / plugins. As soon as you have
>> more of them, it becomes painful to manage.
>>
>> Just a thought.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, May 1, 2013 12:11:18 PM UTC-7, Niphlod wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm not sure I follow ....
>>> let's take an hypothetical "do_this" component
>>> you can have
>>> controllers/do_this.py
>>> models/do_this.py or models/do_this/whatever.py
>>> views/do_this/index.html ....views/do_this/anotherindex.html (or .load,
>>> or .json, or .whatisneeded)
>>>
>>> and in your view simply calling LOAD('do_this', 'index')
>>>
>>> and all works. The only thing that is not "contained" in a folder is the
>>> controller file, and that's more or less the recommended structure for
>>> web2py plugins. If you take "the structure" a little bit further (like the
>>> one explained in the book at
>>> http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/12#Plugins) you'd have also
>>> the admin app grouping them all in a single "manage this plugin" page.
>>>
>>> What do you need ? all those files in a single folder ?
>>>
>>>
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