Russ, thanks for your response...I'll review the ticket you mentioned...
one additional question (sorry -- db design is not my forte)... For each user, i ahve created a profile (which includes avatar, blog url etc.)..Of course, since this a user profile, it also has a foreignkey into the Django User model. In case of such a user profile, would the recursive m2m relation be defined on the UserProfile model ? thnx, -p On Dec 28, 9:59 pm, "Russell Keith-Magee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 29, 2007 9:46 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > thanks for the response russ, > > > i did review the example -- is there anything particular (consequence) > > that you're referring to ? > > Just the obvious one - the fact that you can easily define an > asymmetrical m2m relationship, and > then query across that relationship, so there isn't any need to define > your own m2m model. Unless you have other requirements that you didn't > define, this approach will do exactly what you want (i.e., I am your > friend, but you are not necessarily mine). > > The only reason to define your own m2m model with 'friend_from' and > 'friend_to' is if you want to associate extra data with the > relationship - say, you want to track the date that the relationship > was made, or qualify the relationship as 'family/roommate/etc' - in > this case, you will need to define your own intermediate model (see > the 'm2m_intermediate' example models). You should also check out > ticket #6095; this (or something very much like it) will eventually > provide the 'official' way of handling m2m intermediate models, > hopefully in the very near future. > > Russ %-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
