Re: using models interfaces as a communication layer (not to db directly)

2009-02-13 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 22:23 -0800, matt pokrzywa wrote: > Thanks for all the suggestions everyone. While it is quite the > heavyweight solution (and we'll probably just do everything w/ just > views in the end), could someone give me a small outline of the steps > I'd need to take to pull this XM

Re: using models interfaces as a communication layer (not to db directly)

2009-02-12 Thread matt pokrzywa
Thanks for all the suggestions everyone. While it is quite the heavyweight solution (and we'll probably just do everything w/ just views in the end), could someone give me a small outline of the steps I'd need to take to pull this XML backend thing off? Or point me to the right place? Thanks! O

Re: using models interfaces as a communication layer (not to db directly)

2009-02-12 Thread Alex Gaynor
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:49 AM, matt pokrzywa wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > Thanks for the quick response. I think what I really want is the > latter, using XML as a backend using Django ORM. Is it feasible to > do? > > Thanks, > > Matt > > On Feb 13, 12:34 am, Alex Gaynor wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 13

Re: using models interfaces as a communication layer (not to db directly)

2009-02-12 Thread matt pokrzywa
Hi Alex, Thanks for the quick response. I think what I really want is the latter, using XML as a backend using Django ORM. Is it feasible to do? Thanks, Matt On Feb 13, 12:34 am, Alex Gaynor wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:29 AM, matt pokrzywa wrote: > > > > > > > hello everyone, > > >

Re: using models interfaces as a communication layer (not to db directly)

2009-02-12 Thread Rama Vadakattu
1) AppServer has to send XML means (i assume) DJango running on Apache has to send XML means let's route the URL to point to view which sends the respective XML URL is the means by which the frontend (javascript) will interact with appSERVER (django APP) means in (django

Re: using models interfaces as a communication layer (not to db directly)

2009-02-12 Thread Alex Gaynor
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:29 AM, matt pokrzywa wrote: > > hello everyone, > > i'm planning to use django for a project in a security course i'm > taking, and I have a question about leverage models: > > The models interface is really awesome, but for my project I can't > have my frontend directly

using models interfaces as a communication layer (not to db directly)

2009-02-12 Thread matt pokrzywa
hello everyone, i'm planning to use django for a project in a security course i'm taking, and I have a question about leverage models: The models interface is really awesome, but for my project I can't have my frontend directly talk to my database. We are thinking of having our frontend send an