No. This the main issue with web2py design. This is the price we pay for not having imports of models.
On Jun 9, 4:21 pm, Binh <btbinht...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to create an orm setup like in ruby on rails with the DAL. > I have a user, post, and tag model. > A user has many posts. > A tag belongs to a user. > A post has and belongs to many tags. > A tag has and belongs to many posts. > > I have 4 separate files in my models folder: db.py, user.py, post.py, > and tag.py > db.py contains the db connection and mail configurations. > The respective model files define the table structure and have a class > named after the model to implement virtual fields. > > I noticed that defining the tables with relationships in the separate > files does not work properly. > The model files would load which appears to be in alphabetical order. > So, my db.py would load first and then post.py which fails. > post.py fails to recognize the table definition in user.py, so it > cannot define the belongs to relationship. > > Is their anyway to setup a model file to import all the other models > without the hassle of file load order and possibly import order which > rails does implicitly?
