On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 7:24 AM, dundeemt <dunde...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I need to access data in other databases. I don't want them listed in > model.py as I won't be using django's orm for them. Given this, where > is the preferred place to put the db connection for this data? The > only references I could find show creating a db connection in the > view, http://www.djangobook.com/en/beta/chapter05/ -- while valid for > my purposes, is there a better place to cache the connection? > > Also, I will be accessing 7+ other databases of varying types, some > have hundreds of tables and I have no desire to create a model when > for them when I only need to get to a few values. I will not be > updating data in these other databases, only doing lookups. So I am > not interested in making a proper django data connection to them. I think that good design practice would be to create a data access module for this purpose and import it when you need it. I've done this a few times for MySQL access and even wrapped some of the more frequent patterns and queries into methods in that module. Nick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@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.
