2010/3/5 Omer Barlas <omer.bar...@gmail.com>
> I have an ajax form which updates the status field of a table's status
> column dynamically. I send the table name, and the Id to be replaced to the
> ajax processor, but when I try to call
>
> what = model_name.objects.get(Id=id_number)
>
> django barks at me like this;
>
> Traceback:
> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/django/core/handlers/base.py" in
> get_response
> 92. response = callback(request, *callback_args,
> **callback_kwargs)
> File "/home/www/django/adm/ajax/views.py" in statusUpdate
> 15. what = model_name.objects.get(Id=id_number)
>
> Exception Type: AttributeError at /adm/ajax/statusUpdate/
> Exception Value: 'unicode' object has no attribute 'objects'
>
> How can I use a unicode string as a model instance?
>
>
AFAIK you can't, but you can retrieve a model class object from the model
name using
from django.db.models import get_model
model_class = get_model('appname', model_name) # appname is the application
name
what = model_class.objects.get(Id=id_number)
Hope this helps.
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Alessandro Pasotti
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