Instantiate the DAL with fake_migrate=True, migrate=False,migrate_enable=False Define the tables with only the fields you are going to need in a model file. This is going to create the metadata needed by web2py without touching your legacy database schema.
2014/1/9 Tushar Tuteja <ttut...@gmail.com> > I have a J2EE application and a database which has 200 tables in it. > I want to develop a new application using web2py, which would use only 5 > tables. > I want to know how should I go about it. As I am not clear about how I > would use database without mapping all the 200 tables which is a huge task. > and I don't want web2py to make any changes on the database tables and > their schema. > only crud operations on the records of the 5 tables. > > Thanks, > Regards, > Tushar Tuteja > > -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.