Re: Newbie question: How to avoid a very long view function?

Thank you Daniel, I didn't know this! I am going to lookup how to use session. Thanks! On Monday, 19 January 2015 17:13:10 UTC+8, Daniel Roseman wrote: > > On Monday, 19 January 2015 07:28:14 UTC, Cheng Guo wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I am new to Django and I have run into an issue with views.py.

Re: Newbie question: How to avoid a very long view function?

Hello James: Thank you very much for spending the time reading and answering this question， really appreciated! I complete understand your suggestion of overriding the "save" method in the "UploadFile" to generate the id before saving. Thank you for pointing this out. On the other hand, I

Re: Newbie question: How to avoid a very long view function?

Hello James: Thank you very much for spending the time reading and answering this question， really appreciated! I complete understand your suggestion of overriding the "save" method in the "UploadFile" to generate the id before saving. Thank you for pointing this out. On the other hand, I

Re: Newbie question: How to avoid a very long view function?

On Monday, 19 January 2015 07:28:14 UTC, Cheng Guo wrote: > > Hello, > > I am new to Django and I have run into an issue with views.py. I > understand that there is a function behind each view. For a view that I am > currently writing, it accepts a file upload from user and stores the file >

Re: Newbie question: How to avoid a very long view function?

I wouldn't decorate them as class methods. You would want to call them from the objects themselves. For the save_to_disk() method, I was actually referring to the Django save() method ( https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/db/models/#overriding-predefined-model-methods ). As you have it

Re: Newbie question: How to avoid a very long view function?

So in my case, I need to generate a unique id for the file and save it to disk. I have a model called UploadFile, so you recommend to add two class methods to the UploadFile model, like the following? class UploadFile(models.Model): @classmethod def generate_id(): pass

Re: Newbie question: How to avoid a very long view function?

I second moving some (or most) of the functionality to models.py. For instance, calculating the SHA value should be done as part of the model's save() function, not done in the view. Convention dictates that the only code that is placed in the view itself should be logic related to prepping the

Re: Newbie question: How to avoid a very long view function?

Great, thanks! On Monday, 19 January 2015 15:46:40 UTC+8, Mike Dewhirst wrote: > > On 19/01/2015 6:28 PM, Cheng Guo wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am new to Django and I have run into an issue with views.py. I > > understand that there is a function behind each view. For a view that I > > am

Re: Newbie question: How to avoid a very long view function?

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Re: Newbie question: How to avoid a very long view function?

If the operations are model related, why don't move some of those functions to models.py. On Mon 19 Jan 2015 at 08:46 Mike Dewhirst wrote: > On 19/01/2015 6:28 PM, Cheng Guo wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am new to Django and I have run into an issue with views.py. I > >

Re: Newbie question: How to avoid a very long view function?

On 19/01/2015 6:28 PM, Cheng Guo wrote: Hello, I am new to Django and I have run into an issue with views.py. I understand that there is a function behind each view. For a view that I am currently writing, it accepts a file upload from user and stores the file on the server. To do that, I need

Newbie question: How to avoid a very long view function?

Hello, I am new to Django and I have run into an issue with views.py. I understand that there is a function behind each view. For a view that I am currently writing, it accepts a file upload from user and stores the file on the server. To do that, I need to: 1. check the file extension is