On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 7:03 PM, VernonCole <vernondc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> While mucking with the refactoring of adodbapi, I included a patch fixing > a bug when storing data into columns of type "adGUID". I had not been > really aware that SQL Server has a dedicated data type for UUID until that > ticket surfaced. Then I started thinking about the column in one of my CDC > data tables which contains text which always contains "uuid:" followed by a > long hexadecimal looking string. I am pretty sure it was once a primary > key, but pending something like ticket 19463 I don't use it as such. > Nevertheless, it started me thinking... > > When I read data columns written in native decimal or date-time formats, I > make the db-api module emit good, proper Python decimal.decimal and > datetime.datetime objects. It would not take much effort to perform a > similar action when I see that the incoming column is of the Windows type > "adUUID" -- I could emit an instance of the "uuid" class. > > Is that a good idea, or a bad idea? > I'm not entirely sure what you're asking here. Jacob has already given the green light to a UUID field. We're just waiting for an appropriate patch. So if you want to support UUID types, that's the first step -- but it's unrelated to the development of an Django ADO database backend. The decision to emit an instance of a UUID class is a function of the pyDB-API layer, so that's something to take up with whoever is responsible with the Python ADO bindings. Again, it's not a Django DB backend question. PEP249 doesn't mention UUID types, however, so I'm not sure what the appropriate behaviour would be. Have I missed the point of what you're asking? Yours Russ Magee %-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
