[Zope] Sending DB data via SESSION manager
Chris McDonough
chrism@zope.com
14 Apr 2003 09:44:05 -0400
I don't know exactly how to do this with formulator, but the SESSION
object implements all the methods that a dictionary does. Which means
you can for all intents and purposes access it like a dictionary. The
'update' method might be what you want here.
On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 09:04, Braun Brelin wrote:
> [I originally sent this e-mail to the Zope-DB list, but in reviewing it, this
> may be more of a question for the general list]
>
> Hello,
>
> I've built a formulator form that connects to a database to populate many of the
> fields in the form. I'm using the MySQL DB adapter and I've written a python
> script to access it and return the data via the SESSION Manager like so...
>
> for (key,value) in recordset.items():
> context.REQUEST.SESSION.set(key,value)
>
> This, however isn't precisely what I want. If I create two separate instances
> of the formulator form (i.e. I do a copy/paste from the master form object into
> my own folder more than once) The second form gets the same datavalues
> automatically rendered into the field as the first form. What I want, instead,
> is in the SESSION object to set a dictionary where each key would be the form ID
> and the value would be another dictionary containing the database field values.
>
> How do I go about doing this? I tried doing something like this:
>
>
> context.REQUEST.SESSION.set(MyFormsDict,{})
>
> but that fails with an "unhashable type" error.
> Is what I'm attempting even possible with the SESSION object?
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Braun Brelin
>
>
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