Re: Processing uploaded csv on the basis of user input

2015-01-17 Thread David Mutton
This was far too broad to answer but I'm posting the solution I'm currently implementing in case anyone else comes across this. I have two models in the back end. The first model has a JSONmodelfield ( https://github.com/bradjasper/django-jsonfield) and four intfields to save the columns num

Re: Processing uploaded csv on the basis of user input

2015-01-15 Thread Jani Tiainen
Hi, I do something similiar this way: You could leverage Django (model)form to validate date and to normalize it to proper data. That way you would put design a contract between users that you state which column names are matched to your internal data. Then feed each row to (model)form if row

Processing uploaded csv on the basis of user input

2015-01-15 Thread David Mutton
Please let me know if this is an inappropriate question. I feel it is a little broad. I am fairly new to Django and coding an app for educational purposes. What I am trying to achieve is to allow users to upload a CSV and then populate a model by specifying that datatype that is in each colum