Question

I’m a little lost with the best way to process a record from a displayed list. I’m allowing users to click on a link which will contain the record id in the querystring in the following way in my template.html:

<a href="/edit_record?id={{company.key.id}}">Edit</a>

I have in my handler:

application = webapp.WSGIApplication([
  ('/', DisplayMaphandler),
  ('/companyadd', AddCompanyHandler),
  ('/validatecompanies', Validationhandler),
  ('/addcompanycategories', AddCompanyCategoriesHandler),
  ('/editcompany', EditCompanyHandler),
  ('/edit_record', EditRecordHandler),
], debug=True)

and I wish to get at the id, however this code is clearly wrong and does not work at all:

class EditRecordHandler(webapp.RequestHandler):    
    def get(request):
        myid = request.GET.get('id', '')
        self.response.out.write(myid)

How should I get at the id from this class. Plus I saw some things on urlconf, do I need to use such a thing. I know this class is triggered when clicking on a link but want to find the smartest way of making this work with the RequestHandler rather than a def function. The error I’m getting is:

AttributeError: 'EditRecordHandler' object has no attribute 'GET'

Thanks

Answer 1

Change the EditRecordHandler get method in something like this:

class EditRecordHandler(webapp.RequestHandler):    
    def get(self):
        myid = self.request.get('id')
        self.response.out.write(myid)