On 11/17/05, plisk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seems like its not possible to access request object in hooks like > pre_save and display methods(those are listed in list_display) ? Is it > supposed to be like this by design ? If so then hardly its very > convinient to use in real applications.
Yes, this is by design. Models have no knowledge of whether they're being used in a Web context, or in a shell script, or in a desktop GUI app. Coupling models to Web requests would be convenient in some cases but a bad design decision overall. Adrian -- Adrian Holovaty holovaty.com | djangoproject.com | chicagocrime.org