Re: [web2py] Dynamic model creation

Check out http://www.web2pyslices.com/slice/show/1491/plugin-lookout I have a need to open up other databases and inspect their structures, by looking at the other system's catalog. The slice above also does that.

Re: [web2py] Dynamic model creation

I'm not sure it's a Web2py limitation so much as an SQL limitation. You actually might be able to implement dynamic schemas in Web2py I guess by building your define_tables() on-the-fly but it doesn't sound like the best idea (you'd need to be doing a lot of unpredictable migrations). But dynam

Re: [web2py] Dynamic model creation

Hi pbreit and thanks for the reply. So web2py is not the preferred way to go as DAL needs a scheme? Is there no way to integrate DAL in a dynamic way? Regards, Christian Am Sonntag, 3. Juni 2012 schrieb pbreit : > My guess is it's NoSQL, probably Mongo which seems to be the preferred DB > behind

[web2py] Dynamic model creation

Hello group, I found a backend service, mostly for mobile apps, called parse.com. Looking at their REST documentation (https://parse.com/docs/rest), it looks like one can e.g. dynamically generate different kind of objects, which get persistet (see "creating objects" in the docs to see what I m