hi, i am creating a very simple board and wanted to add a method to my models which would check if there are any new posts in a thread / forum for a given user.. for this to work .. i obviously need the currently logged in user in my models ..
but i didn't want to iterate through all my models in my view, since i used the django.views.generic.list_detail.object_list which does the paging and everything for me .. so i thought the easiest way would be to allow adding of custom initializers.. which would be called once a model was created by django.db.models.query.QuerySet .. so i played around a little until it worked for me: http://yourhell.com/~kahless/query_initializers_patch.diff the usage is quite simple: class MyModelInitializer(object): def __init__(self, request): self.request = request def init_model(self, model): model.do_init( self, self.request.user ) (my models would have a 'do_init' method which takes the user and stores it internally) the object_list would then get a queryset argument in my view like: queryset = Post.objects.filter( ..... ).add_initializer( MyModelInitializer( request ) ) and my templates could simply call {% if thread.hasNewPosts %} ... so .. is this a clean solution ? or can this be done differently ? and .. would there any chance this patch could find it's way into django or does it break any main design philosophy ? - i'm very new to python and django alike .. so there might be an obvious other solution. thanks & cu, Herbert Poul --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
