>Not at the moment. There are two problems that need solving here (I've >mentioned this before either on this list or django-dev) and they're >both still on my endless TODO list. I'll get to them one day. > > I bet your todo list looks like mine 8)
>(1) For fields that are Python wrappers over existing database fields, >there is a small change that needs to be made to the model attribute >creation so that the data from the database is passed to the Field >sub-class's constructor for converting into the right type. This change >is relatively simple (about two lines of code). > > I may take a look at this.... > An example of this is if you make a field called Sudoku, say, > but the data is stored as a string of 81 characters in the > database. After retrieving the data, it would be nice if the > model attribute was actually a Sudoku class instance, rather > than a seemingly opaque string. > > ...because it would solve a lot of my problem. In my case, I could call the function to transform the database's geometry object into something the user can use and understand >(2) For fields that are new database types, it is slightly more fiddly. >We need a way to have them created correctly in the database (possibly >also adding introspection, on the "give an inch and somebody is going to >complain about the rest of the mile being missing" principle). We >possibly need a retrieval mapping function -- imagine if we didn't have >a native date field; how might we implement it as a third-party class -- >or possibly just hand off the rest of the work to case (1). > > > In my case, I don't think I could need this if I had (1). Saving the data isn't my real problem, it's getting it out into a useful format thanks for the info --B --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
