Re: save skunk session manually if it holds objects other than primitive values

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 05:18:41PM +0800, Ren Bing wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just found that if you save objects other than simple primitive values
> (int, str, numbers, etc), but a dict, or perhaps other class instances into
> session, and if you changed members of them, you have to manually call
> session.save() before finish processing the request. I checked the
> Session.py source code, and found that unless you update the session like
> "session[xxx] = xxx" or "del session[xxx]", the session won't get 'dirty'.
> That is, "session[xxx][xxx] = xxx" or "session[xxx].xxx = xxx" won't mark
> the session 'dirty', thus it won't be saved.

Yes.  This is the same problem you have with shelf objects, ZODB, etc.  
 
> This is OK for me, however, if my understand is correct, I suggest to add a
> line in the document to explain this, so user won't be confused.

+1.

js

-- 
Jacob Smullyan

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