Hey Matthias, To use Django's model object for this task, you will need to implement a custom manager for your file's structure; you can see some basic documentation at http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/managers/#topics-db-managers. It should be noted that Django's ORM is not well suited to non-relational data sources right now, from my brief experience, so you'll probably be better off implementing your own class to perform these manipulations.
Regards, Jeff On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Matthias Julius <li...@julius-net.net>wrote: > > I am trying to write a model for which the data can be represented as > a simple array of a fixed number of one byte integers. To use a > SQL database for that would be very much overkill. I would simply use > a file where I can seek to the index position and read or write that > byte. > > While this in itself is not that hard to do I am wondering about how > to implement a model that integrates well into django (provides all > methods and attributes that are expected by other parts of django) but > does not use the database as backend but some other data source > instead. > > Somehow I did not find a complete interface documentation for > models.Model and about the internal workings of django. I didn't go > to the last resort (Read the Source!), yet. > > What is the best way to approach something like that? > > Matthias > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
