Thank You Mike, I understand what you mean and I've made the changes, but
it doesn't help me with my original problem, unfortunately.
On Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at 12:53:51 AM UTC-7, Mike Dewhirst wrote:
>
> On 13/09/2016 4:06 PM, Hanh Kieu wrote:
> > "So your Translation needs a FK to each of two different words. "
> > What would this look like?
>
> class Translation(models.Model):
> #word1 belongs to one word
> word1 = models.ForeignKey(Word, on_delete=models.CASCADE,
> related_name="Translation_word1")
> #word2 belongs to another word
> word2 = models.ForeignKey(Word, on_delete=models.CASCADE,
> related_name="Translation_word2")
> def __str__(self):
> return "{0} - {1}".format(word1.language, word2.language)
>
>
> >
> > On Monday, September 12, 2016 at 10:42:10 PM UTC-7, Mike Dewhirst wrote:
> >
> > On 13/09/2016 3:02 PM, Hanh Kieu wrote:
> > > Hey guys, I'm creating a translation app that allows you to
> > translate
> > > from one object to the other. My translation model has two foreign
> > > keys that links to two words, and on the admin site I want the
> > Admin
> > > to be able to input two different words. The words they enter
> > should
> > > be saved as individual words, as well as a translation. However,
> it
> > > looks like this isn't possible at all in Django. I've been
> > trying so
> > > hard to read documentation but I am struggling. My Models look
> > like this:
> > >
> > > class Language(models.Model):
> > > Â Â Â language_text = models.CharField(max_length=200)
> > >
> > > Â Â Â def __str__(self):
> > > Â Â Â Â Â return self.language_text
> > >
> > >
> > > class Word(models.Model):
> > > Â Â Â language =
> > models.ForeignKey(Language,on_delete=models.CASCADE)
> > > Â Â Â word_text = models.CharField(max_length=200)
> > >
> > > Â Â Â def __str__(self):
> > > Â Â Â Â Â return self.word_text
> > >
> > >
> > > class Translation(models.Model):
> > > Â Â Â #word1 belongs to one word word1 =
> >
> models.OneToOneField(Word,on_delete=models.CASCADE,related_name="Translation_word1")
>
>
> >
> > > Â Â Â #word2 belongs to another word word2 =
> >
> models.OneToOneField(Word,on_delete=models.CASCADE,related_name="Translation_word2")
>
>
> >
> >
> > Word has a FK to Language so a word exists in a language and
> > presumably
> > language_text will contain the name of the language like Ruby or
> > French etc.
> >
> > So for that word to exist in another language, another word in that
> > other language must have a FK to that other language. So if you have
> > enough words in enough languages it would certainly be useful to
> > connect
> > them via a translation record.
> >
> > But perhaps 1:1 is not what you want?
> >
> > Maybe a particular word can be translated into two or three
> > languages?
> >
> > If so, you need an intermediate table which connects any one word
> > with
> > many other words which belong in different languages. Sometimes
> > too, the
> > same word is in more than one language with the same meaning.
> >
> > One translation record needs to make a single connection between
> > any two
> > word records. So your Translation needs a FK to each of two
> > different words.
> >
> > Because you probably want to enter words for which you don't have
> the
> > translation immediately to hand, it might be worthwhile permitting
> > Null=True and blank=True.
> >
> > Hth
> >
> > > I want the admin page for Translation to be able to take in two
> > words
> > > and two languages and create a translation from them (rather than
> > > individually creating one word, then individually creating another
> > > word, then indiviudally creating a translation)
> > >
> > > I've tried using TranslationForm(models.ModelForm), however when I
> > > submit it gives me an error that there are NULL values for my
> > models
> > > :C. Help I am really lost and no one has been of help, I'm getting
> > > really frustrated with this aspect of django.
> > >
> > > If someone could take time to actually understand my problem and
> > help
> > > out that would be great please :C
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