It's easy to share a db -- just use the same connection string. However, it
is more difficult to share models (either put them in modules, where they
can be imported, or use
auto_import<http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/06#Using-DAL-without-define-tables>).
You should be able to load the "plugin" app as a component in another app
-- just specify its URL via the "url" argument to LOAD(). See
http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/04#Cooperation.
Anthony
On Thursday, May 2, 2013 3:10:44 PM UTC-4, b00m_chef wrote:
>
> 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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