Question

Is there a way so that I can get access to request object, while saving a db object, without explicitly passing it e.g.

class RequestData(db.Model):
    ...
    def put(self):
        # autopopulate fields from current request

I just want a quick way to access request, instead of passing it thru so many layers of view/forms/etc

Answer 1

Since Google AppEngine uses CGI protocol, the request information is all there in the environment variables (See CGI Environment Variables).

You can regenerate the request object just like this:

req = google.appengine.ext.webapp.Request(dict(os.environ))