I've needed a model that stored the markup/markup_type/rendered-markup several times and typically just made those fields manually, but just recently when working on a few projects that all needed this behavior I decided to wrap up this behavior as a MarkupField and post it on django snippets (http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1332/)
After writing this I realized that the best place for it IMHO seems to be django.contrib.markup as it is somewhat useful, wouldn't get in anyone's way, and seems too simple to justify it's own external app. Jacob commented on Twitter that this is something that he'd potentially like to see as well so I opened a ticket: http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/10317 I know that this is not the best time to start down the path of a new feature and realize this is probably something that will wait until 1.2 but I figured I'd start the discussion now even if it has to be put on hold and picked back up in April. I've just attached my initial patch to the ticket (tests are on the way but I figured opening it up to discussion before finishing the tests was probably wise) I also have a branch going at http://github.com/jamesturk/django/tree/markupfield I figure I should also answer here some of the questions that have already been raised: What about other types of markup? Some have suggested supporting more types of markup but to me this seems outside the scope of contrib.markup which currently only supports ReST, markdown, and textile. Should this field not meet some peoples needs the can add their own custom markup field and base it on this design. 3 database fields? Someone on the ticket has already questioned this. I'm open to suggestions but of the various methods I thought of this looks like the cleanest way as others seem to introduce a number of special cases. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
