Re: List of DDN Tickets

2008-06-23 Thread AmanKow
hmmm... next time, coffee first, post second. Appologies... On Jun 23, 1:55 pm, Collin Grady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AmanKow said the following: > > > Actually, 'required' is an argument to the *Model* field constructor, > > and models are *not* always initialized from html forms.  The

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2008-06-23 Thread Marty Alchin
Hey all, First, I apologize for posting this on django-dev, since I know it's not development *of* Django, but I didn't want to add to the noise on django-users, and most of the people I'm hoping to reach are frequent readers of this list. No need to flame, I got it. As most of you are no doubt

Re: List of DDN Tickets

2008-06-23 Thread Collin Grady
AmanKow said the following: > Actually, 'required' is an argument to the *Model* field constructor, > and models are *not* always initialized from html forms. The field > certainly doesn't have to be represented as a checkbox in a form, > either. This is incorrect. Model fields have null and

Re: List of DDN Tickets

2008-06-23 Thread AmanKow
Probably not the place for this discussion, but... On Jun 22, 3:08 pm, Ludvig Ericson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ambiguous in this context. Two perceptions exist: > - required=True means the field has to be set. Following HTML form > logics, it always is. > - required=True means the

Re: Database weirdness in test harness

2008-06-23 Thread Luke Plant
On Monday 23 June 2008 14:03:48 Michael Glassford wrote: > Enough excuses. I'm usually more careful about looking closely at > something before replying, and I'll try to be next time. I'm also > looking at modifying Model._collect_sub_objects (to handle other > types of on_delete behavior

Re: Nullable foreignkeys do not let me retrieve records where the foreignkey is null

2008-06-23 Thread Mike H
Brilliant, I feel slightly less of a fool now. :) On 23 Jun 2008, at 15:05, George Vilches wrote: > > You'll be happy to know that there's a ticket in the system that > already resolves this problem: http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/ > 7512 . It will properly LEFT JOIN whenever ordering

Re: Nullable foreignkeys do not let me retrieve records where the foreignkey is null

2008-06-23 Thread George Vilches
You'll be happy to know that there's a ticket in the system that already resolves this problem: http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/ 7512 . It will properly LEFT JOIN whenever ordering occurs on null=True relationships on any of the major field types. gav On Jun 23, 2008, at 10:00 AM,

Re: Nullable foreignkeys do not let me retrieve records where the foreignkey is null

2008-06-23 Thread Mike H
Gah... ignore! Even though the foreignkey was nullable, I had an ordering entry in the Meta class which ordered by deployment__name which forced the inner join. I'll be quiet now... ;-) Mike On 23 Jun 2008, at 14:51, Mike H wrote: > > Hi all, > > Before I rush off and possibly file a bogus

Nullable foreignkeys do not let me retrieve records where the foreignkey is null

2008-06-23 Thread Mike H
Hi all, Before I rush off and possibly file a bogus bug report, am I seeing incorrect behavior here? I have a simple 'Project' model, as so: class Project(models.Model): deployment = models.ForeignKey(Deployment, blank=True, null=True) ... some other fields here Some of the

Re: Database weirdness in test harness

2008-06-23 Thread Michael Glassford
Luke Plant wrote: > On Friday 20 June 2008 23:40:43 Michael Glassford wrote: >> Django builds a list of all the objects that are foreign keyed to >> the one you are deleting and deletes those first, so it bypasses >> any ON DELETE clauses. I assume this is what you're seeing. > > Yes, this is

Re: Using RequestContext by default in default 500 handler

2008-06-23 Thread Rudolph
Hi, You could generate your 500.html file by rendering a different template file that does get a RequestContext. This way you can use the MEDIA_URL and things like that without hardcoding them in your 500.html file. Ofcourse you need to regenerate your 500.html file when you change your