Thanks Massimo. I was hoping to avoid having to pass something to the view
every time. I'm lazy, right? I'm assuming that this is the same if I used
response instead of session. In web2py you didn't have to pass response to
the view, it was automatically available.
-Jim
On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 1:00 AM Massimo Di Pierro <
massimo.dipie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would recommend you do something like this
>
> @action('index')
> @action.uses('index.html', session)
> def index():
> ...
> return dict(session=dict(session))
>
> This will pass a shallow copy of the session to the view. You will be free
> to read from the session in index.html but you should not write it.
>
>
>
> On Friday, 17 January 2020 12:34:43 UTC-8, Jim S wrote:
>>
>> I should re-state my problem. With web2py I wasn't using session, but
>> response. I added a couple of attributes that always got added to the
>> response object. Not sure how to mimic that in py4web, or would I even
>> want to?
>>
>> -Jim
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 11:16 AM Jim S <ato.st...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I'm trying to pass a session variable to layout.html but it tells me
>>> that session is not available:
>>>
>>> NameError: name 'session' is not defined
>>>
>>> I use this technique in web2py to send a page title to layout.html
>>> without having to pass it in the returned dict from the controller.
>>>
>>> Obviously I'm being lazy using this technique. Will this work with
>>> py4web or is it best for me to pass in explicitly in each controller?
>>>
>>> -Jim
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