> I'm not sure I really understand. It sort of sounds like you are > talking about a CharField with a choices argument. Is what you're > looking for more complex?
No...a "choices" argument assumes you know what you want in the field beforehand...yes, I'm looking for a headache :) > Can you describe it in more detail? It would be like a TextField that behaves like the contents of an RCS ",v" file. As the item is saved, past revisions are maintained and only deltas are applied. Past revisions can be extracted. Much like your average wiki edit-field. Theoretically, one could bind to an existing library like the "bzr" revision-control libraries (graciously already written in Python), mercurial/hg (also written mostly in python), SVN or CVS (providing python interfaces, but to non-Django-DB backend storage from my understanding) and hook into their ability to manage the content as revisions. Even a "rcs.py" or something like that would be sufficient as long as it could work with a string-object rather than having to marshall files. Such fields would have ways of extracting various revisions and differences between revisions. Sample usage of this imaginary field type (adjust for apropriateness): class Foo(Model): title = CharField(maxlength=42) body = RevisionControlField() >>> f = Foo.objects.create(title='This is a test', body=""" ... line 1 ... Hello world ... line 3 ... """) ... >>> f.save() >>> f.body = """ ... line 1 ... Goodbye world ... line 3 ... """) >>> f.save() >>> f.body = """ ... line 1 ... Aloha world ... line 3 ... """) >>> f.body.diff() [output showing "Goodbye" -> "Aloha" in your favorite diff format, or perhaps a "diff" object] >>> f.body.diff(1) #diff with [output showing "Hello" -> "Aloha" in your favorite diff format, or perhaps a "diff" object] >>> f.body.revert() # now back at version 2 with "Goodbye" >>> f.body[1] """ line 1 Hello world line 3 """ >>> f.body.revisions 2 Hope this clarifies what I'm hunting for. Thanks though! -tim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
