Sounds like that wouldn't work. Django fails on __init__ with invalid foreignkeys.
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:24 AM, join.toget...@gmail.com <join.toget...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Feb 22, 10:30 pm, Adys <adys...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Not sure I follow you. You mean overriding the set property of a >> ForeignKey/IntegerField? >> >> On Feb 23, 6:23 am, "join.toget...@gmail.com" >> >> <join.toget...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > What about something like a property()? The set method would act like >> > normal, but the get method would have some extra logic built into it >> > that would take care of everything. > > Something like the following: > > _other=models.ForeignKey('Other') > > def _set_other(self, o): > _other=o > > def _get_other(self): > try: > return _other > except Other.DoesNotExist: > return None > > other=property(_get_other,_set_other) > > When someone tries to access "other", it will call the _get_other() > method automagically, so you can have whatever logic you need in there > without forcing anything but the model to deal with it. > > > -- Adys --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---