[albatross-users] context locals question

[Brian Brown]

Quoting Andrew McNamara <andrewm at object-craft.com.au>:

> >   Let me first say that I absolutely love this toolkit... after hanging 
> >on with Zope for years, and seeing it get more and more complex and 
> >unmanageable, this is just what the doctor ordered.
> >
> >Anyway... I am using a couple of variables that I am putting into 
> >ctx.locals, each one is a dictionary that I use for menu structures on 
> >the web site. One is a menu that stays the same and one is a menu that I 
> >want to be context dependent.  The problem seems to be that if I don't 
> >explicitly set this dict in every page module, it goes reverts back to 
> >the empty dict that I first initialized. What I have tried to do is 
> >create a get and set method at the context level, but this doesn't 
> >always seem to work. Is there some other place I should be trying to 
> >keep track of a value like this context dependent menu?
> 
> Are you calling ctx.add_session_vars( ... ) for the variables in question?

No, I was not...but I tried that late last night and it works wonderfully.

> 
> Which context mixin are you using?
> 

SessionAppContext


Thanks!
> -- 
> Andrew McNamara, Senior Developer, Object Craft
> http://www.object-craft.com.au/
> 


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