[Twisted-Python] woven authentications and connections.

[Syver Enstad]

Donovan Preston <dp at twistedmatrix.com> writes:

> On Oct 6, 2003, at 4:17 AM, Syver Enstad wrote:
> 
> > Donovan Preston <dp at twistedmatrix.com> writes:
> >
> >> On Oct 3, 2003, at 4:47 AM, Syver Enstad wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> I am in the process of implementing authentication for an intranet
> >>> application using woven. I will be storing the login information in
> >>> the session. On each request I will connect to the database and pass
> >>> the connection to the page handling the request. How do I know when
> >>> the request is finished so that I can close the connection?
> >>
> >> Overriding Page.pageRenderComplete should be what you want.
> >
> > Thanks, I found another way by calling request.notifyFinished which
> > returns a deferred, I then add a callback to that deferred and it
> > seems to work fine. *The following is not a rethorical question, I am
> > just curious.* In what way is overriding Controller.pageRenderComplete
> > superior to my solution?
> 
> It's not. Your solution is superior. :-) Thanks for pointing it out.

Ok, so even better would be for the page to add pageRenderComplete
callback by calling request.notifyFinished? And then overriding
pageRenderComplete is the superior solution again?