Thank you, but that's exactly what I said I *didn't* want to do, because it's silly. :-)
Why should my *data model* know *anything* about the presentation? And what happens when I want a parrot row ID, or a parrot foo ID, or a parrot cheese ID? Suddenly I have a proliferation of things in my data model that have jack all to do with the data, and everything to do with a particular implementation of a particular view. And then don't forget the Sloth Button ID as well... so if I have two different data objects with similar presentation needs (but no other similarities beyond that), I have to either a) introduce an inheritance dependency that really makes no sense or b) duplicate a lot of code. And then there's the fact that I can't use my nice generic button tag with anything other than data that understands how it's supposed to be displayed by a particular tag. Regards, -scott anderson On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 09:14 +0000, Samuel Adam wrote: > no, Scott, you should just do *this*: > > In your Parrot model, you could add a property that displays your DOM > id. > > class Parrot(models.Model): > # fields > > def _domid(self): > return ''parrotButton-%s" % self.id > domid = property(_domid) > > and use parrot.domid in your templates. > > On 14 sep, 06:46, "James Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/13/07, Scott Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > What I'm hoping, however, is that this missive was moot, because you'll > > > say, "no, Scott, you should just do *this*:", followed by an elegant and > > > reasonable solution that I, as a relative newcomer to Django, have not > > > yet considered. Here's to your reply, and cheers! > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
