I'm preparing to deploy my Django app and I noticed that when I change the "DEBUG" setting to False, all references to static files (i.e., JavaScript, CSS, etc..) result in HTTP 500 errors. Any idea what's causing that issue (and how to fix it)? ...
I am trying to mock-up an API and am using separate apps within Django to represent different web services. I would like App A to take in a link that corresponds to App B and parse the response (json). Is there a way to dynamically construct the url to App B so that I can test the code in development and not change to much before going...
Should I try to actually upgrade my existing app, or just rewrite it mostly from scratch, saving what pieces (templates, etc) I can? ...
I'd like to set a cookie via Django with that has several different values to it, similar to .NET's HttpCookie.Values property. Looking at the documentation, I can't tell if this is possible. It looks like it just takes a string, so is there another way? I've tried passing it an array ([10, 20, 30]) and dictionary ({'name': 'Scott', 'id...
Please share your book or tutorial recommendations for the latest release (1.0) of Django. ...
I plan to serialize a Django model to XML when it's saved or updated. (The XML's going to be imported into a flash movie). Is it better to listen for a post_save() or pre_save() signal and then perform the serialization, or to just handle it in the model's save() methon ...
In my urls.py file, I have: from myapp import views ... (r'^categories/$', views.categories) Where categories is a view function inside myapp/views.py. No other URLconf lines reference views.categories. In a unit test file, I’m trying to grab this URL using django.core.urlresolvers.reverse(), instead of just copying '/categories/' (D...
I'm building a Lifestreaming app that will involve pulling down lots of feeds for lots of users, and performing data-mining, and machine learning algorithms on the results. GAE's load balanced and scalable hosting sounds like a good fit for a system that could eventually be moving around a LOT of data, but it's lack of cron jobs is a nui...
I'm working on a django app right and I'm using cherrypy as the server. Cherrypy creates a new thread for every page view. I'd like to be able to access all of these threads (threads responsible for talking to django) from within any of them. More specifically I'd like to be able to access the thread_data for each of these threads from w...
I want to write tests that can show whether or not the database is in sync with my models.py file. Actually I have already written them, only to find out that django creates a new database each time the tests are run based on the models.py file. Is there any way I can make the models.py test use the existing database schema? The one tha...
class Foo(models.Model): title = models.CharField(max_length=20) slug = models.SlugField() Is there a built-in way to get the slug field to autopopulate based on the title? Perhaps in the Admin and outside of the Admin. ...
Django comes with CSRF protection middleware, which generates a unique per-session token for use in forms. It scans all incoming POST requests for the correct token, and rejects the request if the token is missing or invalid. I'd like to use AJAX for some POST requests, but said requests don't have the CSRF token availabnle. The pages h...
I’ve got a brand new Django project. I’ve added one minimal view function to views.py, and one URL pattern to urls.py, passing the view by function reference instead of a string: # urls.py # ------- # coding=utf-8 from django.conf.urls.defaults import * from myapp import views urlpatterns = patterns('', url(r'^myview/$', views....
Hi there, This question is related to (but perhaps not quite the same as): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/61451/does-django-have-html-helpers My problem is this: In Django, I am constantly reproducing the basic formatting for low-level database objects. Here's an example: I have two classes, Person and Address. There are multiple...
Does anyone know of a Django 1.0 + postgresql + apache + mod_python VMware appliance? A "vanilla" Django 1.0 appliance where postgresql can be installed manually would also do. ...
In the admin interface and newforms there is the brilliant helper of being able to define choices. You can use code like this: APPROVAL_CHOICES = ( ('yes', 'Yes'), ('no', 'No'), ('cancelled', 'Cancelled'), ) client_approved = models.CharField(choices=APPROVAL_CHOICES) to create a drop down box in your form and force the u...
Assume the following: models.py class Entry(models.Model): title = models.CharField(max_length=50) slug = models.CharField(max_length=50, unique=True) body = models.CharField(max_length=200) admin.py class EntryAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin): prepopulated_fields = {'slug':('title',)} I want the slug to be pre-populated by...
I am currently defining regular expressions in order to capture parameters in a url, as described in the tutorial. How do I access parameters from the url as part the HttpRequest object? My HttpRequest.GET currently returns an empty QueryDict object. I'd like to learn how to do this without a library so I can get to know Django better....
We have a website running on Apache, access to which has a number of static pages protected via HTTP Basic authentication. I've written a new part of the site with Django using Django's built in support for user management. The problem I have is that users have to log in once via the HTTP Basic authentication and then again using a Dja...
My Django app has a Person table, which contains the following text in a field named "details": <script>alert('Hello');</script> When I call PersonForm.details in my template, the page renders the <script> accordingly (a.k.a., an alert with the word "Hello" is displayed). I'm confused by this behavior because I always thought Djan...