Hi, Coming from a Java background, I introduced Django in my company for a new web application. So far, we made great progress and web development suddenly was fun again. Unfortunately, it feels like all time I save because of Django, is spent on searching for an IDE (I still haven't found something really usable), reading the doc and solving trivial Python problems. I hope this will get better once I have more experience with Python.
I've a few questions regarding Django I'd like to ask in this and future mails. 1) It is important for me to recreate my environment from scratch (that is, from the VCS). I'd like to have a working application after calling "syncdb". For my own application, I've create an initial_data fixture. But I'd like to recreate users and permissions, too. Is this possible? I looked into django/core/management.py and it seems that "load_data" simple enumerates the installed application so if I want to create a fixture for "auth", the initial_data file must be located inside the django installation. This isn't an option. Furthermore, it seems that "syncdb" always asks for an admin account on the console. Can I somehow suppress that question? Instead, I'd like to load some saved fixture. 2) I'd like to run batch application against our database (periodically using cron). Of course, I'd like to use the same database abstraction as Django uses, so I tried to find a way to initialize the system. What's the recommended way to access models from outside of views? I came up with these lines (conveniently located inside the project folder): #!/usr/bin/env python ... if __name__ == '__main__': from django.core.management import setup_environ import settings PROJECT_DIRECTORY = setup_environ(settings) from demo.models import Demo d = Demo.objects.get(...) ... d.save() 3) I need to create an object with a unique random id - and I would prefer not to use the database specific SQL layer. What's the best way to do it? My naive approach is to declare the id field unique and simply try to insert objects until I get no error. The documentation says [unique] "is enforced at the database level" but it unfortunately does not describe what happens if the constraint is violated. Will this always raise an IntegrityError? 4) I'd like to specify the file name of an uploaded file. Right now, the original filename is kept and I think, this could cause problems if two people upload a file with the same name at the same time. I tried to understand the file upload process in the Django source but there was too much meta magic for my brain. However, it seems that the current documentation doesn't tell the whole story. It seems, that there is a save_FOO_file() in addition to the documentation tree get_FOO_xxx methods... My guess is that manipulators.py is responsible for saving the uploaded file. ... Wait, I think, _save_FIELD_file() will eventually save the file and yes, that while loop is obviously not threadsafe! So I need to set the filename myself. But how? -- Stefan Matthias Aust --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
