Re: Avoiding restarts on the development server

2006-07-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Might be that it just applies to the admin, I'll have to test that when I get home. The reasons I have for modifying the admin are these: * Many-to-many editing as it stands is not useful for my application. For example I have a case where the object that the user should edit can be related to

Documenting your application

2006-07-03 Thread Jiri Barton
I wonder if someone could point me to an article that explains how to document an existing web application. Or, do you know about an application that is well documented? It looks as if it were simple; I need my user to be able to understand the flow from one page to another, under what circumstan

Best way to detect if a view is being rendered for the first time?

2006-07-03 Thread Harish Mallipeddi
Hi, I'm wondering what will be the best way to detect if a view is being rendered the very first time? Because in one of the apps that I wrote, if it is the first time, I would launch a scheduler (kronos.py) and assign the scheduler some periodic task. When I was doing the development on my loca

Assigning Id

2006-07-03 Thread ama55
Hi: I have 2 tables in the database user and person, there is a 1-1 relation between these tables. i am designing my own pages and adding the person and users to the database using addmanipulator. when creating the user i want to assign it to an existing person. i am passing the person_id using th

after_acreate after_change

2006-07-03 Thread Spock
Hello, is there some equvalent to rails actions after_create,after_change ?? Or where start write such tasks ? I'll would like to send e-mails under some actions made in admin interface - some specific updates or creations.. Regars Spock, --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

Re: after_acreate after_change

2006-07-03 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 03:55 -0700, Spock wrote: > Hello, > is there some equvalent to rails actions after_create,after_change ?? > Or where start write such tasks ? > > I'll would like to send e-mails under some actions made in admin > interface - some specific updates or creations.. There is a

Re: after_acreate after_change

2006-07-03 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 21:08 +1000, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 03:55 -0700, Spock wrote: > > Hello, > > is there some equvalent to rails actions after_create,after_change ?? > > Or where start write such tasks ? > > > > I'll would like to send e-mails under some actions made

Re: Assigning Id

2006-07-03 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 10:33 +, ama55 wrote: > Hi: > I have 2 tables in the database user and person, there is a 1-1 > relation between these tables. i am designing my own pages and adding > the person and users to the database using addmanipulator. when > creating the user i want to assign it

Re: after_acreate after_change

2006-07-03 Thread Spock
after_create is a hook executed when commit in database is made when new record is craeted: app/models/ticket.rb after_create :do_something def do_something(self) code ...code ... end Such thins allows You to do some tasks when application writes or change database data i.e send email to

Re: Assigning Id

2006-07-03 Thread ama55
I have a ono-one relationship in my model. here is my view when creating a new user. def create_user (request, person_id): manipulator = Users.AddManipulator() new_data = request.POST.copy() if request.POST: new_data = request.POST.copy() errors = manipulator.get_validat

Re: after_acreate after_change

2006-07-03 Thread James Bennett
On 7/3/06, Spock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > after_create is a hook executed when commit in database is made when > new record is craeted: You can accomplish the same thing by adding a custom 'save' method on the model[1]; Django used to offer '_pre_save' and '_post_save' methods, but anything y

Re: after_acreate after_change

2006-07-03 Thread James Bennett
And I also missed my footnoted reference: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/model_api/#overriding-default-model-methods -- "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." -- George Carlin --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this mess

Re: after_acreate after_change

2006-07-03 Thread Ivan Sagalaev
Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > However, I suspect that is not what you want (since I don't use Rails, I > have to guess a bit from the names). We don't currently have any > post_update and post_create signals being emitted. This sort of > functionality will eventually be possible, but some reworking

Re: after_acreate after_change

2006-07-03 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 16:16 +0400, Ivan Sagalaev wrote: > Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > > However, I suspect that is not what you want (since I don't use Rails, I > > have to guess a bit from the names). We don't currently have any > > post_update and post_create signals being emitted. This sort of

Re: Assigning Id

2006-07-03 Thread ama55
i have made some modification to my code but still it is not working. before saving the new_data to the new_user, i am setting to it the person id. as follows: if not errors: manipulator.do_html2python(new_data) new_data['persons_id'] = person_id new_user = manipulator.sav

Re: Avoiding restarts on the development server

2006-07-03 Thread Jay Parlar
On 7/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Many-to-many editing as it stands is not useful for my application. > For example I have a case where the object that the user should edit > can be related to many objects of a different class. There are > currently more than 3000 obje

Re: Best way to detect if a view is being rendered for the first time?

2006-07-03 Thread Jay Parlar
On 7/3/06, Harish Mallipeddi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm wondering what will be the best way to detect if a view is being > rendered the very first time? Because in one of the apps that I wrote, > if it is the first time, I would launch a scheduler (kronos.py) and > assign the sched

running django fcgi process as a normal user

2006-07-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi I've setup my fcgi server to run through a SysV style init script, but now the server runs as root. I am a bit nervous running my fcgi django server as root. Is there a way of downgrading the process to another user id ? As I understand, execution does not run through the web server anymore (

A small proposal to make it easier to find things

2006-07-03 Thread James Bennett
One of the great things about Django is that there are lots of people out there motivated to write about it and share things they've found or developed which would be useful to the Django community at large, but even with the community aggregator[1] and various search engines giving lots of love t

save an object to the session and call back the object in another page

2006-07-03 Thread bernadet
Hii, please i need the steps for how saving an object to the session and call one of its attributes in another page. to be more clear, i have 2 related models person and user (user is related to the person), i need to once the person has been created, in a following page create a user that is re

Re: Django on Debian Sarge?

2006-07-03 Thread Rudolph
I've got Django running on Sarge and de default mod_python package. No problem at all. Rudolph --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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

Re: Limiting Choices in AddManipulator

2006-07-03 Thread Todd O'Bryan
This worked beautifully. Thanks. Todd On Jul 2, 2006, at 5:10 PM, Jorge Gajon wrote: > > Hi, > Maybe you could try this: > > user_choices = [(u.id, u) for u in User.objects.filter(query)] > form['field_name'].formfield.choices = user_choices > > choices expects a list of tuples in the form of (

Re: save an object to the session and call back the object in another page

2006-07-03 Thread Guillermo Fernandez Castellanos
Hi, As far as i know, you can use the "sessions" framework for that: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/sessions/ As it says: """The session dictionary should accept any pickleable Python object.""" So you should be able to save your User in the session and call it back afterwards. Some

Re: A small proposal to make it easier to find things

2006-07-03 Thread Jay Parlar
+1 I've already been doing that myself, tagging everything in del.icio.us with "django". Any particular reason you want django-tips? I don't mind changing (they make it easy to rename a tag), but was just curious. Jay P. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this me

Re: after_acreate after_change

2006-07-03 Thread Glenn Tenney
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 07:09:35AM -0500, James Bennett wrote: > You can also differentiate between the initial save and later updates > by checking -- before calling the parent class' 'save' method -- > whether the object has an ID; if it doesn't, then the object is being > created for the first

Re: Django on Debian Sarge?

2006-07-03 Thread Dustin Laurence
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 07:54:44AM -0700, Rudolph wrote: > I've got Django running on Sarge and de default mod_python package. No > problem at all. Perfect, that's what I was hoping someone would say. What about putting a note at http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/install/ that the pre

dynamic limit_choices_to in admin

2006-07-03 Thread Kilian CAVALOTTI
Hi djangonauts, I'm currently using the admin interface to create objects with several ManyToManyFields, and I'd like to be able to limit the list of items presented on the Select drop-down lists, based on other fields values. Actually, I'm looking for a user input based equivalent of the limi

Re: A small proposal to make it easier to find things

2006-07-03 Thread Iain Duncan
What about a Django wiki for tutorial type things? Gentoo has one that has been enormously useful to me and could serve well as a model. Iain James Bennett wrote: > One of the great things about Django is that there are lots of people > out there motivated to write about it and share things they

Re: A small proposal to make it easier to find things

2006-07-03 Thread Jay Parlar
On 7/4/06, Iain Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What about a Django wiki for tutorial type things? Gentoo has one that > has been enormously useful to me and could serve well as a model. > There already is one: http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki Doesn't contain many full tutorials though.

Re: A small proposal to make it easier to find things

2006-07-03 Thread James Bennett
On 7/3/06, Jay Parlar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've already been doing that myself, tagging everything in del.icio.us > with "django". Any particular reason you want django-tips? I don't > mind changing (they make it easy to rename a tag), but was just > curious. Mostly I'm thinking in terms

Re: A small proposal to make it easier to find things

2006-07-03 Thread Joseph Heck
I've been tagging with "django"-joeOn 7/3/06, James Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One of the great things about Django is that there are lots of peopleout there motivated to write about it and share things they've found or developed which would be useful to the Django community at large,but ev

Try to tweak given manipulators or start from scratch?

2006-07-03 Thread Todd O'Bryan
I sense I may be trying to do something that's not possible. I have a model, call it Foo, and I need a page to create a Foo. Unfortunately, the AddManipulator I get from Foo doesn't exactly work. As mentioned in a previous post, I need to limit one MultipleSelectField to only certain items.

Re: running django fcgi process as a normal user

2006-07-03 Thread Ivan Sagalaev
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am a bit nervous running my fcgi django server as root. Is there a > way of downgrading the process to another user id ? As I understand, > execution does not run through the web server anymore (which is running > as nobody) I'm not a unix admin but I've managed to mak

Re: A small proposal to make it easier to find things

2006-07-03 Thread Iain Duncan
> There already is one: > http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki > > Doesn't contain many full tutorials though. Ah oops, I've been there and didn't even realize it was a wiki! Could certainly do with more fleshed out tutorials on set up and such. Perhaps I will find time to contribute after my cur

Re: SubClassing problem

2006-07-03 Thread wiz
> class MPTTTree(models.Model): > created_at = models.DateTimeField(_('creation date'), auto_now_add=True) > updated_at = models.DateTimeField(_('last update date'), auto_now=True) > parent = models.ForeignKey("self", null = True, blank = True) > lhs = models.IntegerField(default=0

Re: Django on Debian Sarge?

2006-07-03 Thread Waylan Limberg
On 7/3/06, Rudolph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've got Django running on Sarge and de default mod_python package. No > problem at all. > I'll second that. All default installs on Sarge and no problems for me. -- Waylan Limberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~-~--~~~---

help me please

2006-07-03 Thread turlupin
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Re: Hola

2006-07-03 Thread Douglas Campos
Is there already a task force to translate the docs? On 7/2/06, Jeremy Dunck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7/2/06, mamcxyz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Con respecto a django, no hay mucha informacion en espaƱol, asi que te > > tocaria leer la documentacion (que es buena) en ingles. > > This

Null values in Foreign Keys?

2006-07-03 Thread Iain Duncan
The Django sites related-objects documentation says: "if a ForeignKey field has null=True set (i.e., it allows NULL values), you can assign None to it. Example: e = Entry.objects.get(id=2) e.blog = None e.save() # "UPDATE blog_entry SET blog_id = NULL ...;" But I can't figure out how to set it

Re: Null values in Foreign Keys?

2006-07-03 Thread Iain Duncan
In addition, I checked my mysql table and the field in question is implemented as an integer with Null allowed and default set to Null, so it appears that syncdb is creating the table properly, but the admin interface is not letting me put in a null value for some reason. Thanks Iain Iain Duncan

web-server

2006-07-03 Thread Luigi Pantano
how to use django like web-sever on linux? i have tried: python manage.py runserver localhost:80 but give an error on the selected port. if run for example: python manage.py runserver myIP:8080 the django site is not visible to other machine in the lan/web, why? --~--~-~--~~-

converting time to user's local timezone

2006-07-03 Thread Joseph Heck
Is there a way to twiddle the built-in date filter to convert time to a local user's timezone? Or is this something which is more likely require it's own custom filter? -joe --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google G

Re: web-server

2006-07-03 Thread Frankie Robertson
*Skipped why this is a really bad idea* This: python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:80 should do it, however if port 80 on that machine is open to the Internet then prepare to be horribly cracked/inefficient. On 03/07/06, Luigi Pantano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > how to use django like web-sever

Re: after_acreate after_change

2006-07-03 Thread Spock
Yes yes :) That was the case :) It exactly fit my needs Thankyou very much.. Regards - Spock - male :P --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email t

Re: converting time to user's local timezone

2006-07-03 Thread Ian Holsman
hi Joe. you'll need to do 2 things (as far as I can tell) 1. store your local user's timezone 2. write a custom filter which does the work then use {{ object.create_date|convert_tz user.local_timezone }} or something like that. On 04/07/2006, at 8:04 AM, Joseph Heck wrote: > > Is there a way

Re: web-server

2006-07-03 Thread Don Arbow
On Jul 3, 2006, at 2:56 PM, Luigi Pantano wrote: > > how to use django like web-sever on linux? > > i have tried: > > python manage.py runserver localhost:80 > > but give an error on the selected port. > > if run for example: > python manage.py runserver myIP:8080 > > the django site is not visibl

Re: converting time to user's local timezone

2006-07-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cool - thanks! I'd suspected it was my own custom filter time, but I wanted to check to make sure I wasn't missing anything. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this grou

Re: Try to tweak given manipulators or start from scratch?

2006-07-03 Thread Jorge Gajon
Hi, The choice between doing a custom manipulator from scratch or using the automatically generated one depends on many factors. In an application that I am writing I used a custom manipulator because I needed to create several different objects (from different models) in one single step. So inst

prefill admin forms revisited

2006-07-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm utilizing the default admin views for a project, and using a little documented "feature" of the add forms. There is a neat trick to filling in values on the admin adder page where you simple put key/value pairs to the URL. Key's in the URL that correspond to inputs on the add page are added

Re: after_acreate after_change

2006-07-03 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 08:54 -0700, Glenn Tenney wrote: > On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 07:09:35AM -0500, James Bennett wrote: > > You can also differentiate between the initial save and later updates > > by checking -- before calling the parent class' 'save' method -- > > whether the object has an ID; i

Re: A small proposal to make it easier to find things

2006-07-03 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 05:48 +1300, Jay Parlar wrote: > On 7/4/06, Iain Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What about a Django wiki for tutorial type things? Gentoo has one that > > has been enormously useful to me and could serve well as a model. > > > > There already is one: > http://code

Re: after_acreate after_change

2006-07-03 Thread Glenn Tenney
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 10:10:55AM +1000, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > I can't see any real advantage in this. As Ivan shows, it's only a > couple of lines of code anyway (and a more or less documented feature). > The boolean test for "not created" at the moment is "if not self.pk:", > which seems

Re: Try to tweak given manipulators or start from scratch?

2006-07-03 Thread Todd O'Bryan
Jorge, I can't thank you enough for explaining this, but I'm still a little stuck. On Jul 3, 2006, at 6:46 PM, Jorge Gajon wrote: > # No post, fill up default values > new_data['some_field'] = 'default value' > > form = form.FormWrapper(manipulator, new_data, errors) >

Re: after_acreate after_change

2006-07-03 Thread DavidA
Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 08:54 -0700, Glenn Tenney wrote: > > Perhaps instead of relying on the behavor of the object's ID not > > existing until it's been created, that should become a method. > > something like Model.created() returning true/flase or Model.is_created >

Re: after_acreate after_change

2006-07-03 Thread Don Arbow
On Jul 3, 2006, at 7:11 PM, DavidA wrote: > > In this case it would be up to the app or developer to populate the > slug primary key field before saving. But then just testing the pk > field wouldn't really tell me if it was saved, unless I misunderstand > what "self.pk" is actually doing behind t

Re: after_acreate after_change

2006-07-03 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 02:11 +, DavidA wrote: > > Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 08:54 -0700, Glenn Tenney wrote: > > > Perhaps instead of relying on the behavor of the object's ID not > > > existing until it's been created, that should become a method. > > > something lik