Re: django-values update

2007-05-16 Thread Gulopine
someone else is enjoying it! -Gul On May 16, 2:26 am, simonbun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Gulopine, > > I've been testing your contrib and I'm liking it so far. Finding a > suitable name is quite difficult...At the moment I'm calling them > 'presets' in my code, but

Re: Field.contribute_to_class and contrib fields

2007-05-15 Thread Gulopine
Yeah, this then goes along with the topic of coercion on model fields, since the current structure only allows basic Python types to be created once the model is done. While working with DurationField, I did manage to come up with a fairly simple way to do this, and it seems to pass all the test

Re: Widget rendering and access to "parts" in a template

2007-05-15 Thread Gulopine
I could definitely see some value in this for the widget I'm designing for DurationField, as it would give template designers the ability to display only part of the widget (such as minutes and seconds, for CD audio information, for instance), while filling the rest in either in the view or as

Making part of a MultiValueField optional

2007-05-14 Thread Gulopine
This may be better suited for django-users, as it's somewhat a usage question, but it's for DurationField, which is a proposed addition to Django itself, and its solution may (I don't know yet, just guessing) involve some slight code changes. I'm planning to implement a SplitDurationField, based

Re: Type coercion in Django

2007-05-11 Thread Gulopine
On May 11, 10:06 am, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My understanding of this whole thread is that the initial resistance was > because we really do want to understand the use-cases before making any > architecture change. [...] So if we > can make that use-case possible without

Re: Type coercion in Django

2007-05-11 Thread Gulopine
007-05-10 at 08:14 -0700, Gulopine wrote: > > I think this discussion could use a bit of revival, as it seems > > obvious to me that there are groups that could benefit from some sort > > of field-level coercion. In addition to my DurationField and the > > various possi

Re: Type coercion in Django

2007-05-10 Thread Gulopine
I think this discussion could use a bit of revival, as it seems obvious to me that there are groups that could benefit from some sort of field-level coercion. In addition to my DurationField and the various possibilities available with GeoDjango, there are other things that would be useful in

django-values update

2007-05-09 Thread Gulopine
Well, after a long time of work on it, I've committed a new version of django-values, incorporating feedback from the previous discussion on the topic[1]. There's still a little work I'd like to do on it, but it's very functional right now, and ready for use and testing by anyone who's

Re: Type coercion in Django

2007-04-18 Thread Gulopine
A little more research shows that I could also accomplish what I'm looking for by tying into the pre_init or post_init signal, but then I'd need a customized function for each field that needs processing, on each model. This could be done, of course, and it would certainly keep this coercion out

Re: Type coercion in Django

2007-04-18 Thread Gulopine
On Apr 17, 9:03 pm, "Russell Keith-Magee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Coercion of the type you describe is not required for any field > currently supported. I would be hesitant to include coercion as a core > part of the framework unless there is a generic need to coerce > database values into

Type coercion in Django

2007-04-17 Thread Gulopine
Hi all, I had submitted a patch recently (#3982) that forces Django to use the to_python method of individual fields when retrieving objects from a database. I'm not being impatient, but I'd like to get some additional feedback on this, in case I'm going about it all wrong, or if I'm missing

Re: Give the Message model a type (success/failure/generic)

2007-04-11 Thread Gulopine
I had wondered about something like this myself, actually. The way I understand it, messages were created for the admin interface, where they'd always only be successful, since arrors are handled separately. But, given that messages are available elsewhere (I'm using them extensively in a

Re: Context scope only block-wide?

2007-04-11 Thread Gulopine
On Apr 11, 8:10 am, "Wolfram Kriesing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The "add_data" adds the data to the context inside the render() > function of the tag. Here lies the problem, the scope of the for loop > gets destroyed when the for loop ends Well, in a template context, that does make more

Re: contrib proposal: django-values

2007-04-11 Thread Gulopine
On Apr 10, 6:51 pm, Ian Holsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The zyons version allows for: > - constants at the site level (ie max blog comments can be different > on different sites) True, site-awareness would be a definite benefit that I hadn't yet included. > - allows users (registered and

Re: contrib proposal: django-values

2007-04-11 Thread Gulopine
On Apr 10, 6:28 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How would a FileField or an ImageField work? How would the proposed > CreatedTimestamp/ModifiedTimestamp fields work? > ForeignKey? yikes. Very true. I hadn't considered the many fields that wouldn't even make sense themselves

Re: contrib proposal: django-values

2007-04-10 Thread Gulopine
In working a bit with this, I noticed something. Once these constant definitions are moved outside the main field namespace, there's no longer a clash of functionality between standard fields and these constant values. That clash was the primary reason I had to recreate the basic functionality of

Re: Removing auto_now and auto_now_add

2007-04-10 Thread Gulopine
On 4/10/07, Todd O'Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Given that logic (which, as I said, may or may not be a correct > recollection), I vote for Jacob's solution. In fact, it might be cleaner > to have CreationTimestamp and ModifiedTimestamp fields (both subclasses > of DateTimeField) so that

Re: contrib proposal: django-values

2007-04-09 Thread Gulopine
On Apr 8, 11:18 pm, "oggie rob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, my first question is whether this could be designed to work > without respect to models. For example, there are a lot of cases where > views might refer to the same data, but not the same models. It would > seem cleaner if there

Re: contrib proposal: django-values

2007-04-08 Thread Gulopine
affect the other. > I'm sure I'll have other opinions on this as I learn more about it > (and actually *use* the code). But it looks promising so far -- it's a > good feature addition that would come in handy for many people. Nice > job, Gulopine! I'm glad you like it! I really hope i

contrib proposal: django-values

2007-04-07 Thread Gulopine
Hey all, Many projects require a certain amount of calculations and other features that are based on organizational (or other) policies, rather than any technical requirements imposed by Python or Django. As those policies may change and evolve over time, programmers are often required to change

Re: Procedure for large contrib apps

2007-03-30 Thread Gulopine
On Mar 30, 11:02 am, "Jacob Kaplan-Moss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems a general consensus is forming over handling this sorts of > "contributed" subframeworks: create them as third-party projects -- I > highly recommend Google's code hosting athttp://code.google.com/-- > develop them

Procedure for large contrib apps

2007-03-30 Thread Gulopine
In working on my first major Django project, I've developed a few subframeworks for Django that are greatly enhancing the project, and I think many others would get good use out of them. Unlike my only thus- far submitted app, however, these are considerably complex. In addition to models.py, one

Re: Signed Cookies (ticket #3285)

2007-01-12 Thread Gulopine
> Can you explain the reasons why one would want to use signed cookies? > What (presumably security) issues are they intended to overcome? Yes, the main concept here is security. Since the signature is based on name and value of the cookie as well as the project's SECRET_KEY, a change to any one

Signed Cookies (ticket #3285)

2007-01-11 Thread Gulopine
I've taken the liberty of writing up a contrib middleware to transparently implement signed cookies in a Django app. It autmatically signs and validates all cookies on its own, without any other code needing to know a thing about it. That is, it cleans up after itself, so that views and other