8.13 The RandomModularApp Class

The RandomModularApp class is intended for use in applications which define page code in a collection of Python modules which are randomly accessed via the URI in the browser request.

Figure: The RandomModularApp class
 
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The RandomModularApp class defines the following methods:

__init__( base_url, page_path, start_page, secret)
When you inherit from the RandomModularApp class you must call this constructor.

The base_url argument is used as the base for URLs produced by the <al-a> and <al-form> tags. The page_path argument defines the root directory where page modules and template files are loaded from. The start_page identifies the page that will be served up when a page identifier cannot be determined from the URI in the browser request. The secret argument is used to MD5 sign all pickles sent to the browser.

create_context( )
Returns a new instance of the SimpleAppContext class.