Re: problem representation

2007-06-06 Thread Alfonso Ali
another option could be use the contenttype framework, it's not well documented but using the source and examples could help, take a look here http://feh.holsman.net/articles/2006/06/03/django-contenttype to get an idea about the framework and links to examples. Regards, Ali On 6/4/07, Joseph He

Re: problem representation

2007-06-04 Thread Joseph Heck
If it's the *same* information, then use a foreign-key relationship. If it's different information, then it needs to be stored separately, and defining that on the models is a good way of doing that. You can shoot yourself in the foot by trying to re-use too much as well as too-little. It is ulti

Re: problem representation

2007-06-04 Thread Lic. José M. Rodriguez Bacallao
that is repeating a lot of common information about my models, what about DRY, reusing, etc? On 6/4/07, Joseph Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Maybe a foreign key relationship would work, but you might just > consider adding all those attributes to each model. Unless you think > you'll end w

Re: problem representation

2007-06-04 Thread Joseph Heck
Maybe a foreign key relationship would work, but you might just consider adding all those attributes to each model. Unless you think you'll end with really sparse tables, it may be worth it for the simplicity. You wouldn't want to use a one-to-one table for common elements among different models.

problem representation

2007-06-04 Thread Lic. José M. Rodriguez Bacallao
Hi for everyone. I'm stuck with django, I want to represent this situation: I have a lot of content types like, news, images, urls, etc. All of them have common attributres like creation date, expiration date, publication date, title and so on. The problem is how to represent this with django mode