James, Thanks, this is great. I never made this connection before. I have been using threadlocals for a while (to implement a custom manager with role-based access). Since the start I have been passing a users role as a kw argument in to the Manager via the shell for testing, and until now it never dawned on me that I could just do that in my views! Thanks again -richard
On May 19, 2008, at 4:17 PM, James Bennett wrote: > > On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Tim Chase > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It's the last bit that can throw folks...many folks seem to use >> very nice/helpful bits of the framework that abstract the save() >> call so it's never thought-about. Wouldn't adding a parameter to >> save() stymie the admin and a number of other places that call >> save() without parameters? > > Well, for years now I've been telling anyone who will listen that > auto-filling a foreign key in the admin like this is generally a bad > idea; if you don't trust your site administrators to fill out the form > properly, you've got much bigger problems. Plus, newforms-admin makes > the whole thing moot, and just as 99% of post-queryset-refactor code > I've seen has ignored everything except model inheritance (arguably > one of the *less* interesting new features), I expect 99% of > post-newforms-admin code will ignore the interesting feature and > simply turn out to be "automatically fill in the user" tricks. > > Meanwhile, in public-facing forms for general (i.e., not necessarily > trusted) users, it's ridiculously easy to automatically fill in a > foreign key automatically. > > > -- > "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the best kind of > correct." > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
