That's a great reference, many thanks ivan! On Jan 29, 4:58 pm, Ivan Kharlamov <the.paper....@gmail.com> wrote: > On 01/29/2012 12:18 PM, Bernardo Pires wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Good Morning guys! > > Scenario is the following. For some models on Django, I would like to > > allow the end user to define his own fields. It would be great if I > > could keep all Django awesome features like the ORM, so I can still do > > calls like field__gte to search on the model, still have field > > validation according to field type, etc. I've thought about two ways > > of doing this, and I'm more than open for new suggestions. Any > > feedback would be VERY appreciated. > > > 1. The first approach, is the Entity-Attribute-Value ( > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity%E2%80%93attribute%E2%80%93value_m... > > ), which django already has an app for. > > Seehttp://code.google.com/p/django-custom-field/ > > I think this would be an OK solution, but I lose the ability to do > > "mymodel.objects.filter(custom_field_x=something)". Maybe there's a > > way to regain the ORM, any ideas? But I've heard so many bad stories > > about this method that I'm little scared to use it. > > > 2. The second approach would be to have a database table for each of > > the users (probably no more than a 1000). I've read django has > > something in the lines of inspectdb, which actually checks which > > fields are there and produces the model for you. This could be useful > > but I think maybe I should store the fields this particular user has > > created and somehow dinamically tell django, hey, we also have this > > fields in this model. Is this possible? I know it's generally bad to > > have different tables for each user, but considering this scenario, > > how would you guys rate this method, would it be ok to have one table > > for each user? > > > The model that requires custom fields is for example Person. They > > might want a custom field to store address, blood type, or any other > > thing. > > > MANY THANKS in advance! Have a nice sunday! > > Bernardo Pires > > Bernardo, Hello. > > For other options checkout this > guide:http://stackoverflow.com/a/7934577/497056 > > Best regards, > Ivan Kharlamov
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