Can you please try again using latest trunk?
Massimo
On Sep 4, 7:13 pm, Dave <thefe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I tested this, and it does give all contacts when using
>
> > contacts = db(db.contact.id>0).select()
>
> Unfortunately, using
>
> > person = db(db.person.id>0).select()
>
> also returns all the contacts. I think the intended behavior is to
> just return the contacts that are also a person (as well as those that
> are a sub-class of person.) Additionally, trying to get at the person-
> specific fields fails in that case, e.g.:> for contact in person
> > response.flash= contact.first_name
>
> doesn't work.
>
> Also, the syntax is great for supportingpolymodel, but if you want to
> later add support for expando classes, it might be a bit awkward.
>
> ~Dave
>
> On Sep 4, 10:34 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>
> > Can you help testingpolymodel? In trunk:
>
> > db=DAL('gae')
> > db.define_table('contact',Field('address'),polymodel=True)
> > db.define_table('person',Field('first_name'),polymodel=db.contact)
> > db.define_table('company',Field('business_name'),
> >polymodel=db.contact)
>
> > db.person.insert(first_name="John", address="here')
> > db.company.insert(business_name="John Inc", address="there')
> > contacts = db(db.contact.id>0).select() # should lists both persons
> > and conpanies
>
> > Massimo
>
> > On Sep 2, 11:07 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>
> > > I agree thatpolymodelwould be trivial. We would only need to decide
> > > how to pass parameters to db.define_table to determine if a table is a
> > >polymodelor extends an existing one. This would not have an
> > > equivalent in SQL.
>
> > > On Sep 2, 10:40 am, Dave <thefe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > I'm new to Web2py and trying to get a sense for its GAE support,
> > > > beyond the basic "RDBMS-like" functions (which Web2py seems to support
> > > > very well!)
>
> > > > Expando models andPolyModel: Is there any way to use either of these
> > > > with the DAL currently? Are there plans to, if not? PolyModel
> > > > especially seems like it wouldn't be too difficult to add, as it can
> > > > be used identically to the default Model class (all of its magic is
> > > > handled under the hood I think.)
>
> > > > Thanks for the information, and the great work so far. I'm really
> > > > impressed with how easy web2py is to develop with.
>
>
