[web2py] Re: web2py-mongodb-engine

2015-05-07 Thread Ron Chatterjee
Thank you Alan and Massimo and others. I didn't realize mongodb adaptor support reference field. My bad. Thanks for all the help guys. On Thursday, May 7, 2015 at 9:59:58 AM UTC-4, Alan Etkin wrote: > > I did not check the django app code but if you want to handle embedded > json objects you s

[web2py] Re: web2py-mongodb-engine

2015-05-07 Thread Alan Etkin
I did not check the django app code but if you want to handle embedded json objects you should use table definitions with a json field. Something like db.define_table("mytable", Field("embeddedobject", "json") # db is a mongodb connection (DAL instance) -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - htt

[web2py] Re: web2py-mongodb-engine

2015-05-07 Thread Ron Chatterjee
Below is what I have the model in django. I can do the ListField() in web2py using "list:string" I believe but I am having problem with how to do EmbeddedModelField! in web2py. I don't understand what you mean by "do it independently of backend"! Do you mean to insert the table in mongodb indep

[web2py] Re: web2py-mongodb-engine

2015-05-07 Thread Paolo Valleri
I don't see any problem at all in implementing a common post-comment page in web2py. You can code it independently from the backend. On Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at 8:28:08 PM UTC+2, Ron Chatterjee wrote: > > Here is another tutorial from django: > > > *http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/write

[web2py] Re: web2py-mongodb-engine

2015-05-06 Thread Ron Chatterjee
Here is another tutorial from django: *http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/write-a-tumblelog-application-with-django-mongodb-engine/* Pretty cool. Wondering if we can have a web2py version implementing the same with mongodb. Any thoughts any one? On Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at 4:49:08 PM U

[web2py] Re: web2py-mongodb-engine

2015-05-05 Thread Ron Chatterjee
I was wondering about creating an object inside an object. As shown in the link above: { 'created_on': ISODate('...'), 'author' : { 'name': 'Bob', 'email': 'b...@example.org' }, 'text' : 'The cake is a lie'} instead of that dict someone can also write it as: { 'created_on

[web2py] Re: web2py-mongodb-engine

2015-05-05 Thread Cássio Botaro
Actually DAL have experimental mongodb support. You can see http://www.web2pyslices.com/slice/show/1580/save-the-earth-from-a-total-data-mess-with-mongodbadapter -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://