Hi Folks, This is my problem: I want a notion of preferences for anonymous users and registered users.
Preferences can be things like "saved searches", "favorite restaurant", or a personalized portal configuration for the home page. The immediate solution is to store a pickled preference object inside of the session. This works great for anonymous users, but for registered users there is an additional expectation of persistence: If I log in from a different computer I expect to see my preferences restored - meaning the preferences in this case should be attached to the user. A cookie with a long expiry doesn't work when I log in from another computer. I'm almost certain there's some de-facto solution out there. I'm trying to keep things as transparent as possible so I don't have to juggle anonymous visitors and registered users through different preference mechanisms. Some pseudocode: if anonymous: fetch_preferences_from_session() # Returns AnonymousPreference object if registered: fetch_preferences_from_user() # Returns UserPreference object The UserPreference object and AnonymousPreference object can then expose a common api and blackbox their storage details (the anonymous one will simply write to the session, the UserPreference will store to database to some kind of preference table with a 1-1 Foreign key to the user). But I figure I'm going to facepalm myself when it turns out Django already solves this problem (like it does for most other "core" problems ;) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
