I agree that polymodel would be trivial. We would only need to decide how to pass parameters to db.define_table to determine if a table is a polymodel or extends an existing one. This would not have an equivalent in SQL.
On Sep 2, 10:40 am, Dave <thefe...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm new to Web2py and trying to get a sense for its GAE support, > beyond the basic "RDBMS-like" functions (which Web2py seems to support > very well!) > > Expando models and PolyModel: Is there any way to use either of these > with the DAL currently? Are there plans to, if not? PolyModel > especially seems like it wouldn't be too difficult to add, as it can > be used identically to the default Model class (all of its magic is > handled under the hood I think.) > > Thanks for the information, and the great work so far. I'm really > impressed with how easy web2py is to develop with.