#24930: Add generic archive views for objects with DateRangeFields
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Reporter: underyx | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: closed
Component: Generic views | Version: master
Severity: Normal | Resolution: wontfix
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Changes (by mjtamlyn):
* status: new => closed
* resolution: => wontfix
Comment:
The behaviour of this would have several possible options, and I don't
think it's a generic enough use case to deserve Django maintaining it.
What happens when the range spans two months/years? Does it appear in
both? Only one? If one based on what, start? end?
As a side note, I *think*, though I'm not completely sure, that the
existing archive views can be used in the "only one" case by:
- Setting `date_field = 'range__start'`
- Overriding `uses_datetimefield` if you are using a `DateTimeRangeField`
- Overriding `ordering` until such a time as transforms are supported in
order by clauses (hopefully forthcoming).
For the "overlaps" case, a lot more work would be needed. At present the
implementation of the archive views assumes a fixed point in time, and
that every object would appear in only one view. For example, getting the
list of possible sub views (month views for a year) which are non empty is
a much harder process.
So, one possible use case is (nearly) covered by the built in view. The
second is largely different, but could definitely live in a third party
package. I'd rather keep contrib.postgres for database things and their
form fields rather than adding any possible related concept.
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