Set up a session when your classes are in a separate files

[Adam Bengtsson]

Hello agian,

I was eager to try out the session functionality in web.py but am not really sure how to go about doing this. Having consulted the cookbook I've found the Working with Sessions-example.

In this example, the app-object is passed as an argument to the session initialization, and the session-object is then used globally by the other classes _in this file_.

How would I go about if I wanted to initialize or at least use a session object in a different file where I no longer have the app-reference? Is there some obscure reference to the current application somewhere within the web-package?

Thank you,

Adam

[Shannon Cruey]

I had this issue when I started with web.py, and I was completely new to Python too.

Right or wrong, here's what I did.  I moved on because it worked.

1) I created a file called sharedsession.py  It's one line - looks like this:

• session = None
  

2) in my main web.py file I do this:

• import sharedsession
• ...
  
• sharedsession.session = web.session.Session(app, web.session.ShelfStore(shelve.open('session.shelf')))

(I'm using shelf because I was having problems with the other type and wsgi/apache, and I don't wanna use a db.)

Then, in all my other modules I "import sharedsession" and just reference 'session' there.

Like I said, I'm no python expert, in fact I still don't fully understand "import" to this day.  (It's like a black box for me... it works, it's magical in some ways, and I don't understand why.)

If this is horribly wrong I hope someone else will warn you not to use my terrible idea.  If it's right, you're welcome! ;-)

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[Marios Zindilis]

Perhaps this covers your question?

http://webpy.org/cookbook/sessions_with_subapp

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[Adam Bengtsson]

Hello,

Thank you both for your replies, having totally missed the cookbook example, I think I'll give that a try!

//Adam