[Dancer-users] Using shared variables

[damien krotkine]

Ah yes, you guys are right, I wrongly wrote "between requests", where
it should have been "between routes" :)

On 25 January 2012 00:37, Flavio Poletti <polettix at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:54 AM, damien
> krotkine <dkrotkine at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>
>> There is the 'vars' function to store a state variable between requests.
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>
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 8:54 PM, Gurunandan Bhat <gbhat at pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Damien. I see now that vars is the best way to go.
>
>
> I'm certainly not as aware of Dancer internals as Damien, but I would think
> that this is not the way to go actually. It is my understanding that the
> "vars" mechanism more or less boils down to what failed for you, and that
> there is absolutely no effort to synchronize the vars across multiple
> processes.
>
> I think David got it right:
>
>> You should use the 'vars' keyword if you need to share stuff between a
>> single request, and use sessions (or e.g. memcached) to maintain state
>> between requests.
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>
> A shared data source - database, memcached, whatever - seems to be the right
> choice to save your server-side state.
>
> Cheers,
>
>    Flavio.