Hi, I'm creating a DB using Django for managing our companies data - customers, services, orders, billing etc. I'm using the Django admin interface to manage the data.
I seem to be consistently at odds with myself and would be good to hear the community's point of view on this. I'm defining the DB in Python; using objects and inheritance. As such, when I'm doing this I'm thinking in an object orientated (OO) manner - a service uses a number of resources so I create a Service object with with either foreign key or many-to-many (as appropriate) relationship to the Resource objects. This gives me nice referential integrity and I can be sure that the Service has valid connections to the Resources it requires. It seems, however, that Django expects the models not to be defined in an OO manner. For example; should I wish resources to be listed as Inlines on the Service's page I can only do this if the foreign key is with the Resource - pointing 'up' the stack to the services - as possible to being pointed to by the Service. Django seems to be defining stricture using an OO language; but expecting that structure in a more traditional, relational database, style where entries point up to their owners rather than the owners pointing down to their children. In order to try to fit in with Django Admin I've ended up using both styles. Unsurprisingly this mixture of styles is now causing me problems with circular dependencies. I know I need to jump one way or the other; but would be great to get some comments from experienced Django coders before I decide which way... Any comments/advice welcome... Cheers, aid -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
