Re: Accessing controller name and action name from myghty - Ben Bangert - com.googlegroups.pylons-discuss

7 messages in com.googlegroups.pylons-discussRe: Accessing controller name and act...

From	Sent On	Attachments
Matt Feifarek	24 Aug 2006 23:20
yi huang	25 Aug 2006 00:38
Matt Feifarek	25 Aug 2006 00:48
Ben Bangert	25 Aug 2006 08:15
Matt Feifarek	25 Aug 2006 10:31
Ian Bicking	25 Aug 2006 10:37
Matt Feifarek	25 Aug 2006 15:16

Subject:	Re: Accessing controller name and action name from myghty
From:	Ben Bangert (be...@groovie.org)
Date:	08/25/2006 08:15:05 AM
List:	com.googlegroups.pylons-discuss

On Aug 25, 2006, at 12:48 AM, Matt Feifarek wrote:

On 8/25/06, yi huang <yi.c...@gmail.com> wrote: Maybe you can set c.controller_name in yourproject.lib.base.BaseController

Thanks.

I thought of that, and I can certainly do that, but I thought that this might be a good opportunity to learn the "right way" to get that info, and where that info is.

When Pylons parses the URL with Routes, it puts the routing dictionary into an environ variable 'pylons.routes_dict', so you can find the controller in your template/controller code as request.environ['pylons.routes_dict']['controller'] and request.environ['pylons.routes_dict']['action'].

The controller uses these variables directly from that source to dispatch to your action as well:

http://pylonshq.com/docs/0.9.1/pylons/controllers.py.html? f=111&l=145#111

Line 121 in particular is where it pulls out the information and then calls your action.

HTH, Ben