Malcolm Tredinnick <malc...@pointy-stick.com> writes: > On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 17:13 -0500, Matthias Julius 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. > > The source is the interface documentation. Python is sufficiently close > to English that duplicating it is usually a great way not to add much > value. What there isn't at the moment, however, is any overview document > on what pieces do what.
The "problem" is that the source contains much more information than just the interface documentation. I was looking for a more condensed version. > > However, I can short-circuit things a little bit: this is going to be a > little fiddly to make it work transparently. You are either going to > have to go down the route that Google App Engine does and provide > replacements for the existing model fields you want to use, or write > your own QuerySet replacement that knows how to talk to something like > the Query class and doesn't talk to the database. I guess I'll have to figure out how transparent it needs to be. I would like my app to be easily installable into another Django project without much fiddling. So I want things like manage.py syncdb to just do the right thing, for example. Thanks, 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
