Wow. I guess it wasn't such a stupid question.
foo._meta.fields .. each field will give me att names but not values.
All the methods on the fields that look like they return values only
return the values you give them, WTF?
Foo.objects.filter(pk=1).values()[0] requires 2 calls to the database
since the object I'm after has methods I actually want to use. I have
to get do
foo = Foo.objects.filter(pk=1)
foo_data = Foo.objects.filter(pk=1).values()[0]
Just seems stupid to make two calls to get data I already have.
Hmm perhaps I should do
foo = Foo.objects.filter(pk=1)
foo_form = FooForm(instance=foo)
data = foo_form.cleaned_data
ok I figured something, it's stupid and couldn't possibly be the
"right" way to do it but it does what I need.
foo_data = Foo.objects.filter(pk=1).values()[0]
foo = Foo(**foo_data)
Vance
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Malcolm Tredinnick
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 15:10 -0400, Jay Parlar wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Vance Dubberly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >
>> > So I'm finding there are multiple places where I'm needing to iterate
>> > over the properties of a Model and I'm absolutely certain it's got to
>> > be insanely easy to get a dictionary from a model but for the life of
>> > me I can't figure it out, and I can't find any documentation on the
>> > matter.
>> >
>> > basically I want to be able to do this:
>> >
>> > class Foo(models.Model):
>> > bar = model.CharField(max_length=20)
>> > barfoo = model.ForeignKey(Bar)
>> >
>> > foo = Foo.objects.get(pk=1)
>> > foo.get_dictionary()
>> > {'barfoo': 1, 'bar': 'bar value'}
>>
>> There might be a better way, but try taking a look at
>> foo._meta._fields It does't give you exactly what you need, but the
>> pieces are there.
>
> Even simpler, Foo.objects.filter(pk=1).values()[0].
>
> Regards,
> Malcolm
>
>
>
> >
>
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