Oh, I also tried using __setattr__ and __getattribute__ to solve this, but the problem is that Django's ORM will just (unintentionally) call __getattribute__ when generating the SQL, thereby unpickling the object again, which will of course raise a SQL error and defeat the entire purpose.
To see what I mean, try doing something like what I had at http://dpaste.com/27956/ On Dec 13, 8:11 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Heh, I just picked this up, too! I got the field working almost > straight away after your kind help (all apart from queries, which I > haven't fixed yet as I've been traveling up until this evening) > > Anyway, what I have ishttp://dpaste.com/27955/which seems to work > fine, all apart from the issue I detail > inhttp://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_frm/thread/dc8aaf4... > > Hope this helps, let me know how you get on. As soon as I get queries > working, I will post the full code to Django Snippets. > > Happy Djangoing! > > On Dec 13, 6:48 pm, "Marty Alchin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ken, > > > There was someone else working on this recently as well, so you might > > take a look at the conversation,[1] the beginnings of the code,[2] and > > probably contact the author directly to see if you two can't share > > ideas. It'd be a shame to duplicate effort. It'd be a great candidate > > for a snippet.[3] > > > -Gul > > > [1]http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/988d... > > [2]http://dpaste.com/hold/27712/ > > [3]http://www.djangosnippets.org/ > > > On Dec 13, 2007 12:59 PM, Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Does anyone have an example on how to sub-class a model field so that > > > setattr pickles the field and getattr unpickles it? I want to shuffle > > > a query back and forth between the app and the rendered pages. I > > > could urlencode the query but the URL could get potentially rather > > > long so I thought I'd shuffle just a key to an entry in a table. The > > > value part of the entry would be the pickled dict for the query. > > > >http://mydjangoapps.mydomain/appname/?srchid=23 > > > > instead of > > > >http://mydjangoapps.mydomain/appname/?this=xxx&that=yyy∧=so&on=and > > > ... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
