Hello django users, A few weeks ago I started developing an eLearning-application and chose Django as a framework. There are several reasons that made me use django, although I checked out Turbogears, Cherrypy and webpy. (By the way: What made me use django was the admin interface)
Important: Django rocks anyway! Every framework has its good and its weak points. What I thought of as Django's weak point is its model api. As I see it, it violates the DRY Principle. In development, I am coming up with changes to my database schema constantly. That has several reasons: - my boss comes up with new ideas, which result in unexpected changes to my data structures - I make mistakes in the first place, which result in unexpected changes to my data structures As soon as I change my database schema, I have several possibilites to get my app up again: (a) Change the model. Then drop the current db schema, fire up the new one. Drawback: I lose my data. (b) Change the model and change the schema manually. Drawback: I am repeating myself. (c) Make everything right from the start. Drawback: Can only be reached asymptotical. (I won't argue about that :) What I am saying: The current way of storing the datastructures is redundant. There are the relations in the database and the models in the code. Both have to be maintained. I have to repeat myself once my data structures change. How can I come out of this? I thought of dynamic classes, that are created after inspecting the database. That could be inherited from to use django's other features, like admin-control and special methods. The good thing is, that backwards compatibility is not lost. But before getting on with this, I wanted to ask wether somebody has had some experience with this or if something like this already exists. Or if I am completely dumb and everybody else is okay with the model api. Regards, -Justin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
