Hey, seeing as you haven't had any relies yet, I will through my idea down.
What I think you're gonna have to do for the most graceful version is to create your own database wrapper, that calls xml-rpc, instead of an actual database. Then Django *should* be free to use. The problem may occur that Django really does expect to see database like data, so you may have to reformat your data. My only other idea is to extend the model base class, and replacement the save function, etc. This will get messy though, because QuerySet's also use the db api, so it would require rewriting them too. I think that option 1 is your best bet, and looking at the SQLite wrapper should make stuff easier. Hope this helps -- Ollie > I want to try out Django for a small project, hoping to discover that > it will be the web framework of my dreams, but I need some advice. > > My project group has written an xml-rpc API in front of our database > and password stores. This means that when we want to, say, create a > campus guest account, we call xml-rpc functions like create_guest(), > set_guest_info(), and set_account_password(), and those functions do > all of the database operations (and sometimes operations on other > systems) needed to perform each operation consistently (creating a > guest requires at least six tables to be updated, for example). > > This is great in two ways. First, our business logic is all in one > place, where complex operations get written once, correctly. Second, > we wrote it in simple, plain Python that we could all agree upon, so > that now each front-end and client can be written in the favorite > language and framework of the group deploying it (so long as it talks > xml-rpc), avoiding the need for a religious war and everyone being > forced to use One True Platform. > > The problem is that Django seems to really, really want to talk to the > database by itself. :-) > > At what level, then, would I subvert Django if, say, a Guest were not > a row in a database table, but an entity that I get information about > from an xml-rpc call, and for which some other xml-rpc calls let me > set information? Thanks for any guidance! > > I'll be happy to write up my solution for the Django documentation > page, which already discusses connecting to a legacy database - but > not a ... what would one call it? A "legacy non-database." > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
