Just thought I'd pass this along. I've been lurking about learning as I work on a couple of Django-based projects, and thought it was time to share something back.
I've been having a lot of success with this combination in an app I've been tweaking and extending the past week. It's basically a web-based reporting application, reading out of a MySQL db that's updated by other sources. The first version of this, done a couple of years ago in PHP and JS with no framework, did some AJAXy stuff to update parts of the page without a full reload. Version 2 was redone in Django, but the AJAX updates were still hand- coded JS. (Django's serializer was used to return JSON for the updates). After hearing Simon talk about jquery at OSCON, the next time I needed to make substantial changes, I redid the JS part in jquery, which made extending the app with additional reports much simpler. The only problem was, parts of the pages had two different sets of code that fetched data from the view and formatted the content. On load of the full page, a Django template was rendered, on the updates, JSON was returned and jquery interpreted the result to modify the DOM. As the design evolved, we had to make sure both parts stayed in sync. I was about to go for pass three, in which the page load didn't fetch all of the database data, and all of the AJAX updated content, even on initial load, was handled by JSON serializer and jquery. But I stumbled across the Taconite jquery plug-in. This allows you to return an xml file from any jquery AJAX call. The plugin will iterate over the XML and make DOM changes, abstracting away the need to define callbacks to do these kind of updates. By using Taconite, I was able to rework our Django templates, with careful use of inheritance and includes, so that I could pass in the same context, and use the template 'reportn.html' to render a page for the browser or 'reportn.xml' to render xml for Taconite. So now, when I get told, for example, to add a column of data to one of the reports, I can make the change in a single Django template file, and if necessary, modify a single view function. It's an internal app, and my employer won't let me post any code, but if anyone is interested in this approach, I can work up a simple example and post it. Info on the plug-in is here: http://www.malsup.com/jquery/taconite/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
