Re: dynamic upcast

2008-10-23 Thread dadapapa
On Oct 19, 10:10 pm, Carl Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just ran into this issue myself (first time using non-abstract > inheritance).  The catch with this recipe is that you can never save a > derived object from a parent instance, or you break the final_type > field (it will then contain th

model content from template directory instead of database

2008-11-27 Thread dadapapa
Hi all, A little while ago, I needed to write a number of simple static websites. I would have done everything in pure HTML if it would not have been for the site navigation: adding a single page would have forced me to edit the menu of all existing pages. It was clear that the pure HTML approach

status of per-object-level permission

2008-09-10 Thread dadapapa
Hi, great to see the release of version 1.0 !!! I was wondering if per-object-level (aka row-level) permissions have been included into this release. if not, is there any plan to include them, or is there any work-around/third-party project that works together with the new version? thanks! - ha

dynamic upcast

2008-09-12 Thread dadapapa
Dear all, I am playing around with model inheritance introduced in django 1.0. In particular, I am trying to achieve something that might be called dynamic-casts (with reference to C++). Consider the following example type hierarchy: MediaObject | +-- ImageObject | | | +

Re: status of per-object-level permission

2008-09-12 Thread dadapapa
> > I was wondering if per-object-level (aka row-level) permissions have > > been included into this release. > > if not, is there any plan to include > > them, > > You say "them" as if there's an existing working addition to Django that > supports this and is in some way the obviously correct wa

Re: dynamic upcast

2008-09-12 Thread dadapapa
> It does not work at all. For some reason, final_type also gets > upcasted to MediaObject?! I found the solution, now. The problem was that the __init__ method of a Model is also called when objects are restored from the database. So when the base class gets initialized by the QueryManager, it o

Re: dynamic upcast

2008-09-16 Thread dadapapa
Hi Malcolm, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > > class BaseClass(models.Model) : > > final_type = models.ForeignKey(ContentType) > > > > def save(self,*args) : > > For absolute robustness, you should also accept **kwargs here. There are > a couple of places in Django's code that will

Template tag to check if object in queryset

2009-11-17 Thread dadapapa
Dear list, I have two models that are in the following relationship: class Member(django.contrib.auth.models.User) : # some app specific stuff here pass class Event(django.db.models.Model) : attendees = models.ManyToManyRelation(Member) # some other fields In my

Re: Template tag to check if object in queryset

2009-11-17 Thread dadapapa
Thanks for the pointers. This is exactly what I want and have to do then ... fingers crossed for inclusion into django1.2! On Nov 17, 5:15 pm, Tom Evans wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:07 PM, dadapapa wrote: > > Dear list, > > > I have two models that are in the foll

Problem with contrib.auth in database migration

2010-03-30 Thread dadapapa
Dear list, I am using Django 1.0 + MySQL on the production server and Django 1.1 + sqlite3 on my (local) development server. My application uses contrib.auth.User etc. and I am running into the following issue when trying to migrate the production database to the development server. production se

Re: Problem with contrib.auth in database migration

2010-04-02 Thread dadapapa
I managed to solve the problem. The solution is to explicitly state the applications (models) that you want to migrate, and leave out those that get initialized automatically when doing syncdb (contenttypes). Here's how it worked for me: production server: $ python manage.py dumpdata auth custom_a