I'm not saying it's the best way, but I would either define my own get_comment_count in my application's models.py that looped through the ojbects comments (and their comments) to get an accurate count.
OR I would store comment_count locally on the object and send a signal when a comment is saved, something like (and excuse the pseudo-code) if this.parent = object or this.parent.parent = object: comment.count += 1 On Apr 12, 2:18 pm, fuxter <fuxt...@gmail.com> wrote: > hey everyone, > i'm a young django user and need some advice or opinions on the way of > general use. > > in my application (blog-like site) i have objects and they can have > comments. i also decided to implement limited comment reply feature. > so the objects can have comments, and those comments can have comments > as well. it turn out to be one level nested comments. comments for > comments can't have replies. > > at this point i'm stuck with get_comment_count template tag that > returns only object's comments count, naturally. and i need to count > all the replies altogether. > > so my question is how would you do that? should i add a method to > commented object that would count all the replies? maybe i could hack > the comments/templatetags framework? or should i write my own > templatetag? > > i guess all the options are pretty usable and they don't cross the > django way, which is very liberal. i just wanted to know you opinion, > what would you prefer? > > ps: pardon my russian =) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@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.
