On Monday, June 5, 2017 at 2:56:54 PM UTC+2, MOEGAMMAT FAIEEZ WHITE wrote:
>
> I want to get the values and store it. im creating a visualization web
> application for a data collection application which stores the data
> directly to the database.
>
> i am doing the application as a honours project, the data collection
> application is mostly used in under-served communities, and i want to
> provide a free application that allows the admin user to visualize( in the
> form of graphs and charts) the data in their forms.
>
> another question, is there an option to create a MODELS.PY that is
> dynamic? for example different forms will have different fields.
>
> On Monday, June 5, 2017 at 2:28:55 PM UTC+2, Jani Tiainen wrote:
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>> On 05.06.2017 15:23, MOEGAMMAT FAIEEZ WHITE wrote:
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>>
>> Hi Jani,
>>
>> i have direct access to the database where the form is stored. I GET the
>> data using the imported requests e,g [r = requests.get(url,
>> auth=HTTPBasicAuth('username', 'password'))]
>>
>>
>> So your remote database contains some kind of a form that you want to
>> copy to Django database and then represent that form to end user?
>>
>>
>> so the user would have to input his/her user name and password , and the
>> project name for which they want the forms for. i then create a model with
>> only certain key value pairs i want from the database..
>>
>> my main problem is the models.py and the database insertion of the forms.
>>
>>
>> If it's simple key and value pairs doing that isn't much to code, just
>> add two fields that fullfil your requirement.
>>
>> also i have a python script which fetches my data, i do not know how to
>> use views.py to do it.
>>
>>
>> Same way as in your script, unless fetch is really slow when you need to
>> think of asynchronous alternatives.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Monday, June 5, 2017 at 2:07:08 PM UTC+2, Jani Tiainen wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> First you need to decide how you are going to activate fetch data from
>>> remote company database.
>>>
>>> Is it a button in user interface, django management commant or maybe
>>> timed task?
>>>
>>> Secondly you need to decide how to actually fetch that data from remote
>>> company database
>>>
>>> Through RESTful API? Direct access to database? Some proprietary API?
>>>
>>> Finally you need to have models and do necessary data transformations to
>>> add data to your local Django database.
>>>
>>> But it's not a rocket science. Once you know answers, there are several
>>> tools that can help you to achieve your goal easier.
>>>
>>> On 05.06.2017 10:48, MOEGAMMAT FAIEEZ WHITE wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi i am new to Django, can you please guide me as to how i can fetch
>>> data from a companies database and insert it into my database. I have been
>>> reading about models.py and serializers.py and all tutorials and readings i
>>> came accross has online shown be how to display the database data onto the
>>> html and how to export data already in the database as json data.
>>>
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