ORA-00911: Invalid charatcer

2007-11-30 Thread ChaosKCW
Hi I am curious as to why this post/ticket was closed with not follow up: http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/3953 http://groups.google.com/group/django-updates/browse_thread/thread/acb2d1895d5fcf83/2c33d28fe3acc186?hl=en&lnk=st&q=ORA-00911%3A+invalid#2c33d28fe3acc186 I have just downloaded the

Re: Problem with the django tutorial

2007-12-05 Thread ChaosKCW
Hi It works for me, Did you add your application to the settings.py as per a previous step ? On Dec 5, 3:36 pm, andy baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've been working my way through the django tutorial. I'm really > impressed with what django can do, but I've hit a problem - I'm

Re: ORA-00911: Invalid charatcer

2007-12-05 Thread ChaosKCW
Oracle is working brilliantly now based on my tests. This is a great addition! On Nov 30, 7:36 pm, "Karen Tracey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/30/07, Da Martian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Aha, so there is a fix? Its just not in 0.96.1? That was indeed going to > > be my very nex

Using Oracle support and Synonyms

2007-12-05 Thread ChaosKCW
Hi Just a quick one, if you wish to keep your django instance data seperate from your production data and still use all the nice nifty ORM and admin interface, you can just add synonyms to your django user, then make the following change from USER_TABLES to USER_OBJECTS in the db code and it all

Dynamic Form Questions

2006-07-07 Thread ChaosKCW
Hi I have come back to Django after a short break and am finding the new trunk with the old MR branch a lovely tool indeed :-) Kudos. I am trying to balance the development and maintance time going forward with the development time now with run time performance. I really like the way the admin

Suitability, Performance and scalability Info

2006-01-05 Thread ChaosKCW
Hi My company is looking for me to outline there web apps strategy going forward, and of course they want tried and tested which means websphere and J2EE or possibly .NET. I of course want something better and django stands out. Its mostly for interactive apps, as opposed to static content, so m

Re: Suitability, Performance and scalability Info

2006-01-05 Thread ChaosKCW
Yes thats very helpfull. Thanks,

Models and access to one-to-many

2006-01-14 Thread ChaosKCW
Hi In the Reporter/Article example on the Django site, to get the reporter of an article requires you to call the a method: reporter = article.get_reporter() Is there some reason this isnt dont automactically for you on as follows on attr access: reporter = article.reporter ? This would b

Re: Models and access to one-to-many

2006-01-14 Thread ChaosKCW
Thanks, Luke Plant wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:31:52 -0000 ChaosKCW wrote: > > > In the Reporter/Article example on the Django site, to get the > > reporter of an article requires you to call the a method: > > > > reporter = article.get_reporter() > >

Re: Models and access to one-to-many

2006-01-14 Thread ChaosKCW
Mostly I agree with that statement. If you going to use the attribute, then you need to use it. You have to take a hit at some point. I rember using a world class ORM tool in jaav that allowed join fetches for first elvel attributes for perfroamnce. While I dont expect that of this api for some

Version 1.0 Features

2006-02-11 Thread ChaosKCW
Hi I have looked all over the roadmap etc.. and cant find any dates on the features. The most important feature for me is the transaction support in the ORM layer. Does anyone have any ideas on the progress or timeline for this ? Thanks,

Web Services

2006-02-11 Thread ChaosKCW
Hi I have read the web services link and done some research but nothing stands out. I am interested in designing and application around the web services model. That is I want the core backend functions as standalone in that they can be hooked up via any front end ie XML-RPC or SOAP etc.. eve

Model Basics

2006-02-12 Thread ChaosKCW
Hi I would like to ask about three things: 1) can you access the session user object from the model _pre_save 2) can you subclass a model. 3) app level db Example of what I want: class Audited_Model(meta.Model): audit_created = meta.DateTimeField('Date and Time this account was created',

Re: Model Basics

2006-02-12 Thread ChaosKCW
PS the project and app level DB would also allow for creater scalablity and better seperation of concerns. One last question, is it possible to add a glboal hook into the ORM layer ala SOX requiremens i the USA. To proide an audit of any transaction ?

Help with Admin and modpython

2006-02-12 Thread ChaosKCW
Hi Following the tutorials and they worked fine on the standalone dev server. When we move them to apache and mod_python. we get the login screen fine, but apon login, we get: Mod_python error: "PythonHandler django.core.handlers.modpython" Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/p

Re: Help with Admin and modpython

2006-02-13 Thread ChaosKCW
Is it possible the to have syntax error which works on windows on the local server, but is a syntax error on mod python ? I will take a look and see if I can spot anything, Thanks,

Re: Version 1.0 Features

2006-02-15 Thread ChaosKCW
Yes all it says is pending.

Re: Model Basics

2006-02-15 Thread ChaosKCW
Thanks, I wasnt sure from the documentation if subclassing would do a "inheritance" DB thing like many ORM tools support, or simply combine the two classes as I was hoping for.

Re: Help with Admin and modpython

2006-02-15 Thread ChaosKCW
yes, they are. i will try the setup from scratch. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 gro

Re: Version 1.0 Features

2006-02-16 Thread ChaosKCW
Thanks, I may look at accessing the cursor directory for TP stuff. S --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 uns

Re: Django versions

2006-02-24 Thread ChaosKCW
Its a trade off, I chose the magic removal branch, because the syntactical changes really appeal to me. The models are a lot cleaner and DB API too. However it does have problems. And when 0.92 comes out you will have to change to the new syntax anyways. So if your starting from scratch like me,

Re: Web Services

2006-02-25 Thread ChaosKCW
Thanks for the all the posts, I will look into them all thouraghly. Might take some time as this is a sapre time project :-) Thanks again, S --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To

Help with Generic Views in Magic Removal Branch

2006-02-25 Thread ChaosKCW
Hi Please can someone help. I am following Tutorial4 for generic views, plus adapting it to the magic removal instructions on the wiki page. As far as I can tell i followed the instructions exactly, But I get an error stating that 'model' is not a valid paremeter to the view. I am sure its somth

Re: Help with Generic Views in Magic Removal Branch

2006-02-25 Thread ChaosKCW
Thanks, I had a look at the code and worked that out. Just one question, I have used model.objects, not model.objects.all(). It appears to work and makes more sense to me. Any comments? Thanks, Stephen --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because yo

Magic-Removal Branch Wiki Updated for generic view parameters

2006-02-25 Thread ChaosKCW
Hi I have updated the Magic Removal Branch Wiki with information on using Querysets and generic views. Thanks, C --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send

Re: Help with Generic Views in Magic Removal Branch

2006-02-25 Thread ChaosKCW
Hi Is there some documentation on the "Sites" functionality. I have seen it, but not seen any docs ? Thanks, --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email

Re: Help with Generic Views in Magic Removal Branch

2006-02-25 Thread ChaosKCW
A dumb question, but will objects.all() cause any kind of performance hit ? I mean when the code appends QuerySet.filter(pk=object_id), will it condense that to a SQL statement that returns one object or reutrn all obejcts then do the PK query ? Thanks, --~--~-~--~~~--

Re: Help with Generic Views in Magic Removal Branch

2006-02-25 Thread ChaosKCW
Hi Thanks for your responses. Thats what I thought, just wanted to make sure. The all() just seems unitutive to me, but given that Djangos syntax is so easy, a little bit of something here and there is no biggie. Thanks again. PS I just posted a patch for the generic views on the developers lis

Re: Django versions

2006-02-25 Thread ChaosKCW
True, but I have found it forces me to look at django code more, which helps me learn it more. Guess its not for everyone. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group,

Re: Model Basics

2006-03-01 Thread ChaosKCW
>(On a side note, I could use the ability to have custom >non-Model-Fields (ie, not persisted in the database, only used in the >save() ChangeLog generation) in the Admin, is there an existing way to >do this?) Could you use properties for this? Properties are in the Magic Removal Branch I believ

Oracle Backend and Free Oracle XE

2006-03-01 Thread ChaosKCW
Hi For anyone working on the Backend for Oracle, There is a free version of oracle now, called Oracle XE. I found one post from last year on this, but cant seem to add to it. I am interested in any progress on this, and could be willing to test any code any has developed. Thanks, C --~--~-

Re: Oracle Backend and Free Oracle XE

2006-03-01 Thread ChaosKCW
Sorry forgot link, here it is: http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2006_feb/oraclexega-022806.html?msgid=4645616 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send e

Re: Django in a Load-Balanced environment (ORM issues) ...

2006-03-04 Thread ChaosKCW
>They way I would enivsage adding this functionality to Django would be >that in your model you specify, for each Model object (=table), that it >is to be versioned. Versioning would automatically add a '_version' >column to the generated DDL, and the standard Django save() routines >would take ca

Re: Django in a Load-Balanced environment (ORM issues) ...

2006-03-05 Thread ChaosKCW
Yes, true, its a matter of trade offs. With a verison you add irrelavant data to your table schema. But potentially gain some performance. I tend to like my tables clean and relevant. Just a personal preference. Plus it means the locking can work regardless of the table schema. Once you have to

De-Coupling and the template engine?

2006-03-06 Thread ChaosKCW
Hi One of the great design philosohies I love about Django is the decoupling. However when trying to use the template engine on its own, the import refers the django setttings module env variable, which turn should point to a settings.py which in turn is part of a project ? This seems coupled to

Re: De-Coupling and the template engine?

2006-03-07 Thread ChaosKCW
>Great minds think alike/Fools never differ :-) Check out: > http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/1321 > Lol, yip. I agree whole heartedly with the premise of this ticket. The ORM and the Template Engine rock, and I have need of both outside a web framework. For my standalone app I am left with

Re: LDAP _without_ built-in Django user authentication

2006-03-09 Thread ChaosKCW
Whats the problem with faking a user ? I would reccomend during you LDAP auth code you simple create a user in django.users if it doesnt already exit. This can be compeltly transparent to the user, they will never know. I tend to like to have to setup users to my small admin sites, cause everyon

Re: LDAP _without_ built-in Django user authentication

2006-03-09 Thread ChaosKCW
>Another issue that would create problems is >adding users to LDAP directly -- Django wouldn't know about those users Yes, but you create the user in django on login attempts to django sites. If LDAP auth successfukl: search user DB if not found: add usert to db based on ldap pertmissi

Re: Eclipse based Django IDE???

2006-03-16 Thread ChaosKCW
I have started using pyScripter from MMM-Experts (http://mmm-experts.com/Products.aspx?ProductId=4) I have found this an excellent little IDE to work with. The only issue I have is the default font, but other than changing that in the options, its quick, fats simple to use, has tabs (( a must for

maxlength in the Admin site

2006-03-21 Thread ChaosKCW
Hi I am wondering what I need to do in order to get the admin site to enforce the maxlength property. I am using the MR Branch. I have a model with a CharField where maxlength=3. I goto in admin. It shows a huge box ie way more than 3 charcaaters, allows you to enter more than 3 characters and d

SQL Debugging and limit_choices_to in MR Branch

2006-03-21 Thread ChaosKCW
How can I see SQLs generated from an application. I have read the previosu topics on this, but they no longer seem to apply to MR branch. Well I cant find the table with all the queries anyways. I am trying to use limit_choices_to on a foreignkey and it just doesnt seem to do anything. I have a

Re: OneToOneField

2006-03-21 Thread ChaosKCW
Agreeded, I am trying to use OneToOne in MR branch and get the same problems. I have: class Employee(models.Model): user = models.OneToOneField(User, verbose_name='Employees User ID') ... And get the following error when trying to view the object in admin: Request Method: GET Req

Re: OneToOneField

2006-03-21 Thread ChaosKCW
PS Using ForeignKey works fine. So that my solution for now. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 fr

Re: SQL Debugging and limit_choices_to in MR Branch

2006-03-22 Thread ChaosKCW
This patch works: http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thread/thread/e784f1e5fde630ed/b7920dba4b69e455#b7920dba4b69e455 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To pos

Re: OneToOneField

2006-03-23 Thread ChaosKCW
That is definatly not the problem. OneToOne just doesnt work with User. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 un

Re: maxlength in the Admin site

2006-03-23 Thread ChaosKCW
Hi If the form element is set correctly I have to question why it saved more than 3 characters to the DB and then retrieved those same characters back again. I would have to dig deeper to see exactly what is going on which is why I posted the question first, under the idea that other people have

Re: SQL Debugging and limit_choices_to in MR Branch

2006-03-24 Thread ChaosKCW
Glad you solved it, PS the patch wasnt done by me BTW. Kudos to Luke. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 unsub

Re: OneToOneField

2006-03-24 Thread ChaosKCW
Hi Are you using the MR Branch for the OneToOne on User ? Thx, S --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 unsub

MR Branch - list_filter with ForeignKey -- Help

2006-03-24 Thread ChaosKCW
Hi I am trying to get the list_filter to work with a ForeignKey field in the admin site. It works fine with with a standard charfield with choices, but when I move those values out into a seperate model and add the filter fields in to the list I dont get filters on the right hand side. I searche

Re: OneToOneField

2006-03-24 Thread ChaosKCW
That would be why yours works, this is specific to MR as stated above. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 unsu

Re: maxlength in the Admin site

2006-04-25 Thread ChaosKCW
Sweet, thanks alot. A welcome addition. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 e