wtf is this context thing in ckan?
If you've taken a look at the ckan source code, you'll have come across 'context' as the first parameter in many of the functions. It basically contains all threadlocal information required for a function to execute. It's taken me far too long to understand why they exist and I currently think contexts in their current state are pointless. I'm assuming contexts only contain model, session and user. I get why context exists, it basically comes down to whether you prefer passing parameters for the request/session/user around into functions, so that the parameters define exactly what the function needs to execute. If we do this though, these are 'different' to other parameters which is why they've been seperated into context/data_dict. Your functions do not have to refer to some magical global object to execute. Or whether you are happy using threadlocals, so that if your logic function, calls another function that calls another, that calls .