On 01/29/2012 12:18 PM, Bernardo Pires wrote: > Good Morning guys! > Scenario is the following. For some models on Django, I would like to > allow the end user to define his own fields. It would be great if I > could keep all Django awesome features like the ORM, so I can still do > calls like field__gte to search on the model, still have field > validation according to field type, etc. I've thought about two ways > of doing this, and I'm more than open for new suggestions. Any > feedback would be VERY appreciated. > > 1. The first approach, is the Entity-Attribute-Value ( > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity%E2%80%93attribute%E2%80%93value_model > ), which django already has an app for. See > http://code.google.com/p/django-custom-field/ > I think this would be an OK solution, but I lose the ability to do > "mymodel.objects.filter(custom_field_x=something)". Maybe there's a > way to regain the ORM, any ideas? But I've heard so many bad stories > about this method that I'm little scared to use it. > > 2. The second approach would be to have a database table for each of > the users (probably no more than a 1000). I've read django has > something in the lines of inspectdb, which actually checks which > fields are there and produces the model for you. This could be useful > but I think maybe I should store the fields this particular user has > created and somehow dinamically tell django, hey, we also have this > fields in this model. Is this possible? I know it's generally bad to > have different tables for each user, but considering this scenario, > how would you guys rate this method, would it be ok to have one table > for each user? > > The model that requires custom fields is for example Person. They > might want a custom field to store address, blood type, or any other > thing. > > MANY THANKS in advance! Have a nice sunday! > Bernardo Pires >
Bernardo, Hello. For other options checkout this guide: http://stackoverflow.com/a/7934577/497056 Best regards, Ivan Kharlamov -- 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.
