Re: Modify the value in a row before returning through a query

Another thread today just clued me in. Adding @property to the model method made it work. Thank you for helping out Javier, I provided the full example below in case someone else looks for this: import urlparse def stripdomain(url): bits = urlparse.urlparse(url) return bits[1] class

Re: Modify the value in a row before returning through a query

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Merrick wrote: > Do you know if there is a way to have url.domain return what > stripdomain() did above? Otherwise I'll use a template filter and move > on. no need for a filter, {{url.stripdomain}} will call url.stripdomain() or, you could

Re: Modify the value in a row before returning through a query

Looks like we were writing at the same time. I also was not aware you could call a model method in a template without the parenthesis, that's where I was getting hung up. Again thank you. On Aug 24, 3:54 pm, Javier Guerra wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 5:37 PM,

Re: Modify the value in a row before returning through a query

url.stripdomain() returns: yourdomain.com Do you know if there is a way to have url.domain return what stripdomain() did above? Otherwise I'll use a template filter and move on. Merrick On Aug 24, 12:20 pm, Javier Guerra wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:42 PM,

Re: Modify the value in a row before returning through a query

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Merrick wrote: url = yourmodel.objects.get(id=1) url.domain > u'http://yourdomain.com/' what does url.stripdomain() return? -- Javier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

Re: Modify the value in a row before returning through a query

Thank you Javier, for some reason I cannot get it working. Using your example, I noticed the return value is stripdomain, I am assuming that function would be outside of the model? Assuming the code you provided, I would expect that adding the code below, directly above the class yourmodel

Re: Modify the value in a row before returning through a query

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Merrick wrote: > I know how to parse the URL but am drawing a blank on how to > accomplish this at the model level. add a function to the model, that returns the parsed field. class yourmodel (models.Model): domain =

Modify the value in a row before returning through a query

I have this in models.py: domain = models.URLField(...) Let's say one row in the table has this for domain: 'http://www.google.com' When the domain field is looked up, I would like to return: www.google.com I know how to parse the URL but am drawing a blank on how to accomplish this at the