On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 10:22 -0700, Chris wrote:
> So I had this idea and was looking for some thoughts on this:
> When starting a new website, normally a client gives you a handful of
> documents
> on what he/she wants. Most of the time this person is technically
> illiterate so
> interpreting what he/she into a django model is often a challenge.
> i propose this cool idea called a the django-uml generator that would
> work my simply doing
> this: python manage.py umlgen SOME_MODEL_NAME and magically you have
> a
> nice type of document or some data the could import into a document
> based upon how the
> model was defined. How would this be useful? In return to the non
> technical documentation
> that was given you would have some sort of document that you could go
> over with the client
> to make sure what was written in their documentation meets what you
> output from the models
> before you syncdb and doing further coding. It seems like you could
> save a lot of headaches
> at a later point with this method. Thoughts?
You have somebody who you feel is technically illiterate to the point
they can't give you an accurate written description of what they want
(I'd question a few of your premises, but that's another issue) and
you're going to take revenge on this person by inflicting UML on them??!
UML is not useful for somebody at the hypothetical level you're talking
about.
On the other hand, if you just want a nice output of the models, start
here:
http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DjangoGraphviz
Works wonderfully. Easy to customise, too.
Regards,
Malcolm
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