[Twisted-web] newbiew question

[Christopher Armstrong]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Maarten ter Huurne
<maarten at treewalker.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 July 2008, arun chhetri wrote:
>
>> class Calendar(resource.Resource):
>>     def __init__(self,user,pswd,server):
>>         resource.Resource.__init__(self)
>>         self.user = user
>>         self.pswd = pswd
>>         self.server = server
>>         self.putChild('month',Month(user))
>>
>>     def render(self,request):
>>         return"""<p> The user is %s
>>     <a href=/calendar/month> The link to the month is this
>>     """%self.user[0]
>>
>>     def getChild(self,path,request):
>>         return Month(self.user[0])
>
> The information about the user does not belong in any Resource subclass: a
> Resource is a page that can be generated for different users, so it should
> only contain information that is the same for all users. Any user specific
> data should be fetched via the request object.

This is totally inaccurate. It's perfectly reasonable to store
user-specific data in Resource objects.  "a Resource is a page that
can be generated for different users" is either irrelevant or not
true, I can't tell which. You can dynamically and return Resources
based on which user is making the request.

Now, I'm not sure my favorite abstraction for a user is a string; I'd
probably pass something other than a username to a Resource. Perhaps a
rich object representing the user.


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