Hi everyone,

I just started developing my first web application, I chose Django for this
job and I'm so excited with it. It's a control panel with billing
system for the ISP which I'm working for. This control
panel allows customers and our admins to add domains, email accounts, ftp
accounts, databases... and then bill. As it is the first time i'm using
django, i'd like to share with you how im thinking to implement it so I can
be sure I'm doing fine, respecting django philosophy :).

*I've defined the database model in models.py

*I've created two instances of the AdminSite, (one for admins, another for
customers)

*The database can be updated by 3 differents ways:

+Admin panel

+Customer panel

+Synchronization app (to allow sysadmins to do modifications directly on the
system without loosing consistence between the database and the system)

*For the admin and the customer panel I want to override the function
save_model via /contrib/admin/options.py. I want to call there a function so
a resource is created in the system, ex: create_domain(). ¿Is that the best
place to call create_domain()?

*The synchronization app is called by cron each 'X' time. via wget
http://panel.mydomain.org/app/<http://panel.mydomain.org/app/syncrhonitzation>
syncrhon 
<http://panel.mydomain.org/app/syncrhonitzation>itzation<http://panel.mydomain.org/app/syncrhonitzation>.
It looks up for changes and saves them into the database.

*Every time that someone creates a new resource (ex. add domain) I need to
log it into "orders" table (to bill customers later). In order to preserve
data consistency I think the best way to do this is using the signal
django.db.models.signals.pre_save.
At this point I have a few questions:

-Is using this signal is the best way? If this signal fail (don't insert a
row in orders table), is the default behaviour cancelling obj.save()
function? or domain is saved anyway in the database? If that's the case,can
the function that calls obj.save() know that the signal has failed?

I appreciate any kind of comment!

thank you a lot for reading until here!

Marc

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