how to search a specific model?

2006-01-07 Thread EricHsu
guys, by reading simon's AbstractSearching: https://simon.bofh.ms/cgi-bin/trac-django-projects.cgi/wiki/AbstractSearching I got my searching for stories work by: 1. settings.py - add: SEARCH_DEFINITIONS = { "foo.apps.bar.search", } INSTALL_APPS = { [snip] 'stuff.search' } 2. url

Re: how to search a specific model?

2006-01-07 Thread EricHsu
btw, I tracked down to the stuff/search/views/generic.py, seem that the kwarg module_list hasn't been passed to the search() funtion from the utils.py, so I have to set the SEARCH_DEFINITION in the settings.py to get the searching work properly. It won't work if I set the search_info_dict like th

Debugging a production app

2006-01-07 Thread WSobczuk
Hey, I'm having a lot of problems with Django not printing error messages when errors happen. For example: 1. if the error 500 template is missing - django just prints 'template missing', and doesn't print the actual error that caused the problem. 2. if i do make an error 500 template i don't k

Re: Problem with i18n

2006-01-07 Thread hugo
>I think you should have $PROJECTPATH/locale and not >$PROJECTPATH/conf/locale as in the Django source tree. Exactly. Only the Django source tree uses conf/locale/, projects and apps use just locale/. With the wrong paths make-messages.py was thinking about running in the Django source tree, that

Re: Debugging a production app

2006-01-07 Thread hugo
>I'm having a lot of problems with Django not printing error messages >when errors happen. For example: Just activate DEBUG=True in your settings file and possible TEMPLATE_DEBUG=True if you have templating errors and you should see what the exception is and where it is :-) bye, Georg

Re: Debugging a production app

2006-01-07 Thread WSobczuk
Did I mention that it's the *PRODUCTION* environment? And I can't just 'activate DEBUG', I want the error to be logged whenever it happens and. Besides, once DEBUG=False i want to know what's going on on my servers too and not have to turn debug on and reproduce the error which is ridiculous. p

Re: how to search a specific model?

2006-01-07 Thread hugo
>Now I would like to add one more function by using AbstractSearching: I >would like to search for users by username, first_name, last_name or >email. how could I achive that? You would have to add lookup or filter functions to your search definition. There are two kind of additional queries that

Re: Validator across fields

2006-01-07 Thread hugo
>Have you looked at django.core.validators? There's one in there called >RequiredIfOtherFieldNotGiven that might do what you want. You'd want >to make both fields blank=True and add that validator to >validator_list Keep in mind that cross-field-validators only work on the main record, not on pos

Re: Debugging a production app

2006-01-07 Thread hugo
>Did I mention that it's the *PRODUCTION* environment? And I can't just >'activate DEBUG', I want the error to be logged whenever it happens >and. With production environments, Django explicitely tries to _not_ send out informations to the users, as those might contain important stuff you don't

Django webhosting poll

2006-01-07 Thread PythonistL
Hi, Here are two questions: 1.Which Django webhosting provider would you recommend and why? 2. What should I be aware of when choosing aDjango webhosting? I know there are webhosting providers that boast how good they are but after you sign up with them the things are different.For example when

Re: Problem with i18n

2006-01-07 Thread Beegee
Yep. And now it works perfectly. Reading the documentation again and again I see it is actually in the documentation! You have to very carefully read the documentation. What confused me was the following part in the documentation. It is the paragraph called "How to create language files". It cont

Re: Debugging a production app

2006-01-07 Thread WSobczuk
I'm not saying I wnat to send information to users, I'm saying I want it logged (at least to stdout is it *that* hard?). And I'm not keen on putting down my email server when I publish some broken code and get 1 error emails. Email isn't a means of error reporting - logs are. And digging th

Re: Debugging a production app

2006-01-07 Thread hugo
>I'm not saying I wnat to send information to users, I'm saying I want >it logged (at least to stdout is it *that* hard?). And I'm not keen on >putting down my email server when I publish some broken code and get >1 error emails. Email isn't a means of error reporting - logs are. The only m

Re: Django webhosting poll

2006-01-07 Thread Tom Tobin
On 1/7/06, PythonistL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As I can see by "premium quality hosting solutions" everyone can mean > something different :-( When web-host shopping (or any other sort of shopping, for that matter), always go by explicitly stated offerings, e.g., "your own Apache instance w

Re: Django webhosting poll

2006-01-07 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Saturday 07 Jan 2006 6:31 pm, Tom Tobin wrote: > When web-host shopping (or any other sort of shopping, for that > matter), always go by explicitly stated offerings, e.g., "your > own Apache instance with mod_python" or "lighttpd and fastcgi > supported", very simple - go for root access. you

Re: how to search a specific model?

2006-01-07 Thread EricHsu
BiG Thanks to hugo! "To have a unified search" - that make things clear now :) I got my site's searching against a single model work with writing lookup_kind function like yours! Now I can search for stories with query_string = 'kind:storys foo bar' and search for users with query_string = 'kind

one-to-one design problem

2006-01-07 Thread Alice
Not really django specific, I was having problems with it in java+hibernate implementation too... I have a model, 'Items', which is generic enough to extend to more specialized items, like a 'book items' model for example. This relationship has been modelled as a one-to-one, but when listing the

Re: how to search a specific model?

2006-01-07 Thread EricHsu
Yet another problem :) Could I paginate the search result?

Re: location in a server

2006-01-07 Thread Jacob Kaplan-Moss
On Jan 7, 2006, at 12:46 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: i have an installation of django on a server. The domain names given are or the form: http://myname.foo.com my django will live at http://myname.foo.com/mysite/ if i put this: then wouldnt requests to say http://yourname.foo.com/mysite/ al

Re: ANN: "Snakes and Rubies" (Django/Rails meetup) video/audio available

2006-01-07 Thread tonemcd
Thanks for all your efforts on this Jacob, it was really helpful. I came away thinking that the main thing Rails has over Django is AJAX integration built-in at a (seemingly) fundamental level, but as that's being addressed ... :) "We've got Welsh" ;)

Re: how to search a specific model?

2006-01-07 Thread hugo
>How could I have different templates for the search form/results? In my case it's part of the model itself - I have a template tag "embed" that just does the right thing for each class that might be searched. In your case you could just have different search result templates and have two views t

Confused about where to put css and images

2006-01-07 Thread aaloy
Hello! I'm a bit confused about where to put css and images to the application in order to use them in Django. I have read http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/static_files/ and I'm trying to use the "if DEBUG trick" but it does not work for me. What I like to do is to use some css for the

Re: Apache Authentication

2006-01-07 Thread Brian Ray
Hi Adrian: When placed together, I do get asked for Authentication from browser. When good credentials are provided, I do get through but then an error is displayed. I would like to determine wether or not I am doing something wrong. Otherwise, can log this intro Trac as a feature request? -- B

Re: Confused about where to put css and images

2006-01-07 Thread PythonistL
For my development server I only have one more line in urls.py (r'^Media/(?P.*)', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root' : 'C:/Django/TEMPLATES/Static/', 'show_indexes':True}), where 'C:/Django/TEMPLATES/Static/' is my dir on my XP . For the production server (Apache with mod_Python) I h

Re: Apache Authentication

2006-01-07 Thread Adrian Holovaty
On 1/7/06, Brian Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/handlers/modpython.py", > line 20, in authenhandler > staff_only = _str_to_bool(options.get('DjangoRequireStaffStatus', > "on")) > > TypeError: 'tuple' object is not callable Ooooh, tha

Re: Confused about where to put css and images

2006-01-07 Thread aaloy
Hello! Thank you for your answer! 2006/1/7, PythonistL : > > For my development server I only have one more line in urls.py > > (r'^Media/(?P.*)', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root' > : 'C:/Django/TEMPLATES/Static/', 'show_indexes':True}), > This is quite the same that I have actually

Re: Editing objects inline with admin, _manipulator_validate not used?

2006-01-07 Thread wietze van Winden
Hi, Some time ago I posted the message below, with no responses yet.Probably my questions where not very clear.My questions are:am I doing something wrong (and what is wrong), or is this expected behavior?How do I get this working properly?Is this a bug, and should I submit this as a bug?Thanks,Wie

Re: one-to-one design problem

2006-01-07 Thread Dody Suria Wijaya
Alice wrote: Not really django specific, I was having problems with it in java+hibernate implementation too... I have a model, 'Items', which is generic enough to extend to more specialized items, like a 'book items' model for example. This relationship has been modelled as a one-to-one, but wh

Re: Django webhosting poll

2006-01-07 Thread James Bennett
On 1/7/06, PythonistL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here are two questions: > 1.Which Django webhosting provider would you recommend and why? > 2. What should I be aware of when choosing aDjango webhosting? If I were you, I'd pick one of these three, depending on how you want to use Django: 1. I

Re: Apache Authentication

2006-01-07 Thread Brian Ray
Adrian, I took a look at modpython.py. I changed line 16 to: _str_to_bool = lambda s: s.lower() in ('1', 'true', 'on', 'yes') Note the parethesis. Seems to work now. Cool, Thanks!

Re: Debugging a production app

2006-01-07 Thread Eric Walstad
On Saturday 07 January 2006 02:17, WSobczuk wrote: > I'm not saying I wnat to send information to users, I'm saying I want > it logged (at least to stdout is it *that* hard?). And I'm not keen on > putting down my email server when I publish some broken code and get > 1 error emails. Email i

Re: Apache Authentication

2006-01-07 Thread Brian Ray
Anouther issues with Authenticating this way, the Django user is still Anonymous although the REMOTE_USER is not: , POST:, COOKIES:{}, META:{'AUTH_TYPE': 'Basic', 'CONTENT_LENGTH': 0L, 'CONTENT_TYPE': None, 'GATEWAY_INTERFACE': 'CGI/1.1', 'HTTP_ACCEPT': '*/*', 'HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip,

Re: Debugging a production app

2006-01-07 Thread Ian Holsman
I'm sure he tests throughly beforehand. but issues like database corruption, bad networks, and DoS attacks can happen which you don't expect, and can't test properly in staging. all of these can cause a flood of emails bring down mail servers rending other parts of your system unworkable..not a g

Re: Apache Authentication

2006-01-07 Thread Ian Holsman
Hi Brian. I wrote a http auth middleware along time ago, I haven't used Adrian's. http://svn.zilbo.com/svn/django/common/middleware/httpauth.py this might work for you. it was written before Adrian's version but it works well in my environment. It just hands the Auth over to apache, and creates

Re: Apache Authentication

2006-01-07 Thread Brian Ray
Thanks Ian. But, this is not really what I am doing here. I do not want to create users from Apache. Kind Regards, Brian

Re: Apache Authentication

2006-01-07 Thread Brian Ray
This is in my view *after* the Authenticaion: def login(request): user = users.get_object(username__exact=request.META['REMOTE_USER'] request.session[users.SESSION_KEY] = user.id request.user = user # do something else ... Seems to make both Django and Apache happy. Regards, Brian

Re: Debugging a production app

2006-01-07 Thread hugo
>but issues like database corruption, bad networks, and DoS attacks can >happen which you don't expect, and can't test properly in staging. all >of these can cause a flood of emails bring down mail servers rending >other parts of your system unworkable..not a good idea at all. That's especially t

top-level model

2006-01-07 Thread berto
Hello everyone, I'm just starting with django and am trying to figure out the best way to approach creating a top-level model. My "Item" model would be one that all other items will extend in some way. By doing this, i'm hoping to give all entries an owner, some metadata (e.g. timestamp) and pe

Re: one-to-one design problem

2006-01-07 Thread Alice
Thanks for the reply :) python+django make everything easier than java, but I don't think there is any nice clean way of modelling something like this. It might be easier to have each specialized model inheriting from a generic item class (through django), then listing each seperately or perform

Re: location in a server

2006-01-07 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Saturday 07 Jan 2006 8:08 pm, Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote: > > then wouldnt requests to say http://yourname.foo.com/mysite/ > > also go to my django app? I cant experiment since i dont have > > access to the server, and my own box is set up completely > > differently. > > It completely depends on t

Re: Django webhosting poll

2006-01-07 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Sunday 08 Jan 2006 1:11 am, James Bennett wrote: > 1. If you want to do Apache+mod_python, go with Jacob's Gypsy > Hosting (http://www.gypsyhosting.com/). > 2. If you want to do Apache+FastCGI, go with Dreamhost > (http://www.dreamhost.com/). > 3. If you want to do lighttpd+FastCGI, go with Tex

Re: how to search a specific model?

2006-01-07 Thread EricHsu
wOW! I get it done "by writing small wrappers around the generic view"! Thanks A LOT hugo! You've been a great help! I'm going to look into the pagination thing later ;)

Re: Apache Authentication

2006-01-07 Thread Adrian Holovaty
On 1/7/06, Brian Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > btw, I will fill out a Trac ticket for the modpython.py fix, just in > case this thread get's lost in cyberspace. Thanks for the ticket and patch! I've committed it. Adrian -- Adrian Holovaty holovaty.com | djangoproject.com | chicagocrime.org

Re: ANN: "Snakes and Rubies" (Django/Rails meetup) video/audio available

2006-01-07 Thread Eugene Lazutkin
Just a suggestion: in addition to direct download and a torrent it should be uploaded to http://video.google.com. In this case it is easier to send a reference, when people ask. Not everybody can download the whole thing. I can do it for you guys, if you want. Thanks, Eugene Adrian Holovat