Could response.view also be a handle (or maybe response.viewhandle ?).
That way we could throw a (c)StringIO at response view, and StringIO
can wrap db fields, python strings or whatever we want.
Note that response.stream already works this way so it would be
perhaps more consequential, too.
On Jun 22, 9:03 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> I should be able to di it tomorrow if no major obstacles.
>
> Massimo
>
> On Jun 22, 12:01 pm, Ted G <tedg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Massimo,
>
> > I've been watching trunk. Have you had any luck with this?
>
> > Ted
>
> > On Jun 18, 8:31 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>
> > > not easy to do now, but easy to add. I will add this to trunk
> > > tomorrow.
>
> > > Massimo
>
> > > On Jun 18, 4:30 pm, Ted G <tedg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > I have an application in which I need to have the view rendered by a
> > > > controller be specified using a parameter to that controller.
>
> > > > I believe I could do the following based on what I've dug up in this
> > > > forum:
>
> > > > def index():
>
> > > > try:
> > > > response.view='default/' + request.args[0] # eg.
> > > > 'indexview2.html'
> > > > except:
> > > > response.view='default/index.html'
>
> > > > return dict(message=T('Hello World'))
>
> > > > Ideally, as I come up with new view templates, I would like to upload
> > > > them to the appropriate directory, allowing me to request an alternate
> > > > view by simply passing the filename of the new view to this
> > > > controller.
>
> > > > The problem is that I am running my application on Google App Engine,
> > > > therefore to upload new views I would have to update my application,
> > > > which is not practical if I am frequently adding new views.
>
> > > > The ideal solution would be to store the new view in a text or blob
> > > > field within a table of the database and then be able to use that text/
> > > > blob/string as the input to response.view instead of a file.
>
> > > > Is this at all possible under web2py's current template processing
> > > > (processing a view from a blobl/text/string instead of file).
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