Re: Message Passing for Anonymous Users

2007-06-19 Thread Marty Alchin
On 6/19/07, Marty Alchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Keep in mind how get_and_delete_messages() currently works; it > retrieves the messages and removes them so they won't show up on > subsequent page views. There would need to be some mechanism to > achieve this, so it would have to be something

Re: Message Passing for Anonymous Users

2007-06-19 Thread SmileyChris
On Jun 20, 5:27 am, "Amit Upadhyay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/19/07, James Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd be +1 on just switching the whole thing (messages for all users, > > authenticated or not) to using sessions, in which case > > django.contrib.auth.models.Message should be

Re: Message Passing for Anonymous Users

2007-06-19 Thread SmileyChris
On Jun 20, 3:58 am, "Joseph Heck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Out of curiousity, what's the reason to try and keep them separate > instead of just layering it over the session mechanism? Mainly due to the limitation of context processors that they can't see or change the current context. The co

Re: Message Passing for Anonymous Users

2007-06-19 Thread Marty Alchin
On 6/19/07, Amit Upadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why is request.session["_messages"] not enough? It can be a list of string > messages. Keep in mind how get_and_delete_messages() currently works; it retrieves the messages and removes them so they won't show up on subsequent page views. Ther

Re: Message Passing for Anonymous Users

2007-06-19 Thread Amit Upadhyay
On 6/19/07, James Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd be +1 on just switching the whole thing (messages for all users, > authenticated or not) to using sessions, in which case > django.contrib.auth.models.Message should be deprecated and replaced > by django.contrib.sessions.models.Message.

Re: Message Passing for Anonymous Users

2007-06-19 Thread James Bennett
On 6/19/07, Joseph Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Out of curiousity, what's the reason to try and keep them separate > instead of just layering it over the session mechanism? I'd be +1 on just switching the whole thing (messages for all users, authenticated or not) to using sessions, in which

Re: Message Passing for Anonymous Users

2007-06-19 Thread Joseph Heck
Out of curiousity, what's the reason to try and keep them separate instead of just layering it over the session mechanism? -joe On 6/18/07, SmileyChris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's not difficult for someone to implement this themselves, but it > does seem useful enough (imo) for core. > >

Re: Message Passing for Anonymous Users

2007-06-18 Thread SmileyChris
It's not difficult for someone to implement this themselves, but it does seem useful enough (imo) for core. I have also contributed a patch to that ticket (sorry for the hijack) with docs and tests, calling the framework "visitor messages" to keep it separate from auth's "messages" framework. -

Message Passing for Anonymous Users

2007-06-18 Thread Sean Patrick Hogan
I created a ticket for a new way of passing messages and the first response said that I should bring it up to the dev group for a design decision. http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/4604 - that's the ticket (with patch). Basically, it stores messages according to session rather than according t