Pages

The Wave server stores and manages content. Content is stored in a page cache, called a site. A Wave server contains exactly one site. A site holds a collection of pages. A page is composed of cards. Cards hold content and data buffers.

To reference a site from within a Wave script, import site.

from h2o_wave import site

site is a dictionary-like object.

To reference the current site from within a Wave app, use q.site.

async def serve(q: Q):    site = q.site

To reference a page hosted at /foo, use site['/foo'].

page = site['/foo']

To reference the current page in a Wave app, use q.page.

async def serve(q: Q):    page = q.page

page is also a dictionary-like object. To reference a card named foo, use page['foo'].

card = page['foo']

There are two ways to add a card to a page.

The first way is to assign a new card to page['foo'].

page['foo'] = card

The second way is to use page.add(). This is useful when you want to add a card to a page and obtain a reference to the new card.

card = page.add('foo', card)

The following two forms are equivalent. The second form is more concise.

page['foo'] = ui.form_card(...)card = page['foo']

card = page.add('foo', ui.form_card(...)

To delete a card named foo from a page, use del page['foo']:

del page['foo']

Assigning a card to page['foo'] replaces any previously assigned card named foo. Therefore, the following two forms are equivalent. The second form is more concise, hence preferred.

page['foo'] = card1del page['foo']page['foo'] = card2

page['foo'] = card1page['foo'] = card2

To save a page from within a Wave script, use page.save().

page.save()

To save the active page from within a Wave app, use q.page.save().

async def serve(q: Q):    await q.page.save()

caution

q.page.save() is an async function, so you must await while calling it.

You don't need to explicitly create a new page. A page is automatically created on save if it doesn't exist.

To delete the page hosted at /foo, use page.drop() or del site['/foo']. The following three forms are equivalent.

page = site['/foo']page.drop()

site['/foo'].drop()

del site['/foo']

Deleting a page automatically drops all cards associated with that page. Conversely, to delete all cards from a page, simply delete the page.

To clear all cards in the active page from within a Wave app, use q.page.drop():

async def serve(q: Q):    await q.page.drop()

To update other (non-app) pages from within an app, use AsyncSite:

from h2o_wave import Q, AsyncSite
site = AsyncSite()
async def serve(q: Q):    page = site['/foo']    page['bar'] = card    await page.save()