Hi all, I'm trying to get an abstract model working in Django and I hit a brick wall trying to set the related_name per the recommendation here: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/models/#be-careful-with-related-name This is what my abstract model looks like: class CommonModel(models.Model): created_on = models.DateTi...
I have the following models class Database(models.Model): user = models.ForeignKey(User) name = models.CharField(max_length=100) created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True) updated = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True) class DatabaseUser(models.Model): user = models.ForeignKey(User) name = models.CharFiel...
It's easy to serialize models in an iterable: def _toJSON(models): return serializers.serialize("json", models, ensure_ascii=False) What about when I have something more complicated: [ (Model_A_1, [Model_B_1, Model_B_2, Model_B_3]), (Model_A_2, [Model_B_3, Model_B_4, Model_B_5, Model_B_59]), (Model_A_3, [Model_B_6, Model_B_7]), ]...
Let's say that I have a Person who runs an inventory system. Each Person has some Cars, and each Car has a very large number of Parts (thousands, let's say). A Person, Bob, uses a Django form to create a Car. Now, Bob goes to create some Parts. It is only at the form level that Django knows that the Parts belong to some specific Car,...
In Django I calculate the breadcrumb (a list of fathers) for an geographical object. Since it is not going to change very often, I am thinking of pre calculating it once the object is saved or initialized. 1.) What would be better? Which solution would have a better performance? To calculate it at _init_ or to calculate it when the obje...
I have a 3 - 4000 nodes in a drupal 6 installation on mysql and want to access these data through my django application. I have used manage.py inspectdb to get a skeleton of a model structure. I guess that there are good/historical reasons for drupal's database schemes, but find that there are some hard to understand structure and that t...
I may be loading data the wrong way. excerpt of data.json: { "pk": "1", "model": "myapp.Course", "fields": { "name": "Introduction to Web Design", "requiredFor": [9], "offeringSchool": 1, "pre_reqs": [], "offeredIn": [1, 5, 9] } }, I run python manage.py loaddata -v2 data: ...
Hi folks, I'm having a little problem here! I have discovered the following as being the globally accepted method for customizing Django admin field. from django import forms from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe class AdminImageWidget(forms.FileInput): """ A ImageField Widget for admin that shows a thumbnail. "...
I have a main class with a category property and several subclasses. I'd like to set the default category for each subclass. For example: class BaseAd(models.Model): CATEGORY_CHOICES = ((1, 'Zeta'), (2, 'Sigma'), (3, 'Omega'),) category = models.IntegerField(choices=CATEGORY_CHOICES) ... class SigmaAd(BaseAd): additiona...
I have inserted this in settings.py: AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = ( 'blog.auth.backends.EmailBackend', 'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend', ) blog is an application ( correctly installed ), auth is a folder in blog application, backends.py is the file that contain this method: from django.contrib.auth.backends import ModelBacke...
Hello, Let say I have 3 models: A, B and C with the following relations. A can have many B and many C. B can have many C Is the following correct: class A(models.Model): ... class B(models.Model): ... a = models.ForeignKey(A) class C(models.Model): ... a = models.ForeignKey(A) b = models.ForeignKey(B) Or is there a m...
Hi, I got very simple hierarchical structure: every object can have 0 or 1 parent. There's no limit on how many children each object can have. So in my application I got such a model: class O(Model): name = CharField(max_length = 20) parent = ForeignKey('O', related_name = 'children') Now I would like to be able to fetch all obj...
In my views i have the date in the following format s_date=20090106 and e_date=20100106 The model is defined as class Activity(models.Model): timestamp = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True) how to query for the timestamp filed with the above info. Activity.objects.filter(timestamp>=s_date and timestamp<=e_date...
Is there a way to create a form from profile models ? For example... If I have this model as profile: class blogger(models.Model): user = models.ForeignKey(User, unique=True) born = models.DateTimeField('born') gender = models.CharField(max_length=1, choices=gender ) about = models.TextField(_('about'), null=True, ...
I'm using Django 1.2 trunk with South 0.7 and an AutoOneToOneField copied from django-annoying. South complained that the field does not have rules defined and the new version of South no longer has an automatic field type parser. So I read the South documentation and wrote the following definition (basically an exact copy of the OneToOn...
Suppose I have a model: class SomeModel(models.Model): id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True) a = models.IntegerField(max_length=10) b = models.CharField(max_length=7) Currently I am using the default admin to create/edit objects of this type. How do I set the field 'a' to have the same number as id? (default=???) Other...
I have this Model: class Occurrence(models.Model): id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True, null=True) reference = models.IntegerField(null=True, editable=False) def save(self): self.reference = self.id super(Occurrence, self).save() I want for the reference field to be hidden and at the same time have th...
text_field = models.CharField(max_length=max) can I do this? I am using postgresql 8.4. Thanks ...
Hello, I have the following table in the model with a recursive structure (a page can have children pages) class DynamicPage(models.Model): name = models.CharField("Titre",max_length=200) parent = models.ForeignKey('self',null=True,blank=True) I want to create another table with ManyToMany relation with this one. class...
One of my Django sites is missing the Django Admin Action bar shown here: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/admin/actions/#ref-contrib-admin-actions There is no checkbox next to each row and no Action select box near the top of the page. This is happening on every model. I have several sites running Django 1.1, and the...