Re: Generate random data for Django models

2010-02-23 Thread Timothy Kinney
After a bunch of trial and error, basically, I've decided not to put the url pattern in the ProvinceAdmin class. It is easier and makes more sense (to me) to add the urls to myproject/urls.py and then create a file called myproject/myapp/admin_views.py with the custom admin views. It's probably

Re: Generate random data for Django models

2010-02-22 Thread Timothy Kinney
Okay, I got it. There was a typo in the hard-coded url pattern. The following actually does not work: ** code ** (r'^/1/add_random_samurai/$', self.admin_site.admin_view( self.add_random_samurai)) ** /code ** But this does: ** code ** (r'^1/add_random_samurai/$',

Re: Generate random data for Django models

2010-02-21 Thread Timothy Kinney
Okay, I've got such a button and I have copied a template from admin to serve as a stand-in for it. I have created functions under ProvinceAdmin (in myapp\admin.py) that look like: ** code ** def ProvinceAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin): # other stuff def add_random_samurai(self, request):

Re: Generate random data for Django models

2010-02-19 Thread Peter Herndon
On Feb 19, 2010, at 5:51 PM, Timothy Kinney wrote: > So I have a nice little database now stocked with items and provinces. > I now want to generate random samurai and populate the database with > them. I can think of two ways to do this: > > 1) Through the admin interface. But how do I install

Generate random data for Django models

2010-02-19 Thread Timothy Kinney
So I have a nice little database now stocked with items and provinces. I now want to generate random samurai and populate the database with them. I can think of two ways to do this: 1) Through the admin interface. But how do I install a button that will add a random samurai? Adding samurai is a