+1 I spent this Saturday morning implementing ad hoc table sorting in a ListView's get_queryset. It felt very wrong, to say the least. An abstracted sorting and filtering framework, along with a few of the admin-ish features that are already in core (inline model formsets, et al) provide some very powerful tools for those lone rangers (like myself) who aren't able to use the admin for a project, but still need to be able to emulate some or all of the admin's functionality.
I would be very interested in this, and feel it could add a lot of value to the framework. I'd be willing to provide code, with some guidance from members of the core team. On Oct 9, 10:20 pm, tWoolie <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd like to propose a project to split out the table/list > functionality and the filtering functionality in the django admin into > a seperate contrib app. This is really core functionality which is > lacking from django (in terms of being locked to the admin app). > I believe this would be beneficial because currently there are a lot > of people who love using the admin interface but find building the > same functionality into their own applications daunting at best. This > leads a lot of people to try to abuse the admin app by allowing > regular users into there. > > I propose moving a lot of the django-tables2 functionality into a > contrib app and augumenting it with filterspec. Then the admin can use > this app, or any custom subclass of Table/Filter. Currently, django- > tables2 is fantastic but has no support for filterspecs which would be > super super helpful, and would benefit from the level of [url] > abstraction that d-t2 provides. > > I'm posting to this group to gather feedback and ask if anyone would > actually like to see this happen. I believe it's something i'd love to > contribute but only if the django devs would be interested in > incorporating it. > > Thomas -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
