Good to hear that Jim, are you by any chance using the current 
<http://www.web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/04/the-core?search=current.request#Sharing-the-global-scope-with-modules-using-the-current-object>
 
object in your class to control state? - is this even advisable by the core 
devs?

On Wednesday, June 29, 2016 at 1:39:59 PM UTC-7, Jim S wrote:
>
> That is exactly what I'm doing with a new application we rolled out 
> earlier this month.  Controller instantiates the object, does the necessary 
> processing and then returns the object to the view.  Works well for me. 
>  I'm doing some tricky (well, tricky for me) things to pass the object 
> around between pages, but it is all working quite well.
>
> -Jim
>
>
> On Wednesday, June 29, 2016 at 3:03:45 PM UTC-5, Julio F. Schwarzbeck 
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi again Folks,
>>
>> I just wanted to get your take on an approach that has not been suggested 
>> for this question, even though the question, in one form another, has been 
>> asked previously.
>>
>> I have more than one application, or potentially one or more applications 
>> + some services that roughly has the same information requirements.
>>
>> Both my mobile app and my desktop app (no bootstrap here, as both are 
>> first-class apps) call the same controller, I know I can change the view 
>> name dynamically and still call the same controller, but what if I add a 
>> service endpoint, for example, that ultimately calls the "default/index" 
>> controller, but with no view, and so on..
>>
>> So the solution that I'd like you guys to comment on is the following..
>>
>> Creating a class (or first class functions) as a *Module*, and put all 
>> the business logic in that module(s), and now we can have as many 
>> controllers as we need (if needed) and they all call the same business 
>> logic module but represent the data in different ways (JSON, XML, etc).
>>
>> So the question is, do you see a problem offsetting "controller" code to 
>> a module instead, and having the controller (or multiple different 
>> controllers or applications) call the business rule in the module? - This 
>> could potentially eliminate the need to change views or other "trickery" to 
>> technically execute the same code for a specific controller..
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --sb
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>

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