Re: Patch for using custom managers in a reverse relation. (#3871)

2011-10-04 Thread Vivek Narayanan
, the filtering behavior can actually be changed. In the tests there is an example does this. > > Cheers. > Tai. > > On Oct 3, 3:25 pm, Vivek Narayanan <m...@vivekn.co.cc> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > I've added a patch that provides functio

Patch for using custom managers in a reverse relation. (#3871)

2011-10-02 Thread Vivek Narayanan
Hi, I've added a patch that provides functionality for selecting a custom manager in a reverse relation , rather than the default manager. For example: author = Author.objects.get(id=1) # Selects the manager 'foobar' of Post. mgr = author.post_set.managers("foobar")

Re: Customizable Serialization

2011-03-31 Thread Vivek Narayanan
Hi Russ, Thanks for the suggestions once again, I've thought of changing the model for handling nested fields. Each model can have a no of serializers, and they can be plugged in to other serializers and in this way nested models can be handled instead of cycling through a tree of arbitrary

Re: [GSoC Proposal] Customizable Serialization

2011-03-25 Thread Vivek Narayanan
Hi Russ, Thanks for the long reply and all the suggestions. My comments are inline. > What if you need to support both? e.g., > > >     the bar value > > > It seems to me that you would be better served providing a way to > annotate each individual metadata value as (and I'm bikeshedding a >

Re: Customizable Serialization

2011-03-22 Thread Vivek Narayanan
> I also haven't seen any proposals or examples of how I'd use the API as > an end user - are people going to be able to register serialisers to > models (since they're apparently tied to specific models anyway)? There will be different types of serializers like JSONSerializer, YAMLSerializer,

[GSoC Proposal] Customizable Serialization

2011-03-17 Thread Vivek Narayanan
ument to serialize(). Weeks 9 - 10 1. Write documentation for the project and provide many examples. 2. Write a few tutorials on how to use the framework. 3. Write some project-level tests, do some extensive final testing and refine the project. = About = I am Vivek Narayanan, a secon

Re: Customizable Serialization

2011-03-08 Thread Vivek Narayanan
On Mar 8, 3:14 pm, Tom Evans wrote: > Splitting down your project into small chunks will also demonstrate to > people reading your proposal that you understand the subject matter, > and they can have a high confidence of the project being delivered. Thanks, I didn't

Re: Customizable Serialization

2011-03-07 Thread Vivek Narayanan
On Mar 6, 11:54 am, Russell Keith-Magee <russ...@keith-magee.com> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Vivek Narayanan <m...@vivekn.co.cc> wrote: > > @Sebastien: I got your point about using a dict as an intermediate > > structure and the use of recu

Re: Customizable Serialization

2011-03-05 Thread Vivek Narayanan
piquemal <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ok ... I have to admit I was not very clear. Here is what I meant, > illustrated with some code examples : > > http://readthedocs.org/docs/django-serializers-draft/en/latest/index > > These are my "dream" django-serializers ! >

Re: Customizable Serialization

2011-03-01 Thread Vivek Narayanan
ridden as a default method would be provided''' def meta2_model(self, model): ... In XML class XMLSerializer(Serializer): mode = "xml" wrap_fields = "fields" nesting_depth = 0 metadata_display_mode = ATTRIBUTES indent = 4 field_tag_name = &

Customizable Serialization

2011-02-24 Thread Vivek Narayanan
Hi, I am Vivek Narayanan, an undergrad student at IIT, Varanasi in India and am interested in participating in this year's SoC Problem Django provides a serialization framework that is very useful for loading and saving fixtures, but not very flexible if one wants to provide an API

#15040: Post processing of SQL results

2011-02-17 Thread Vivek Narayanan
Hi, I was looking at the ticket at http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/15040 in which 0 or 1 are returned instead of boolean values in a BooleanField when MySQL is used with select_related(). Since MySQL handles them as 0 or 1, they need to be converted. >From my understanding, when

Ticket #8809 - "Better error message when can't import url callback".

2011-02-02 Thread Vivek Narayanan
Hi, I am new to the Django community and I would like to implement a patch for the ticket #8809 - "Better error message when can't import url callback". http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/8809 This ticket basically requires the error message, when a callback function in urlpatterns is not

Re: Interested in contributing to Django

2011-02-02 Thread Vivek Narayanan
On Feb 3, 3:07 am, Gabriel Hurley wrote: > Hi Vivek, > > It's great to hear you're interested in contributing! This year's GSOC is > just getting underway and while Django will likely participate as it has in > years past, we're not quite at that stage yet. > > However, if

Interested in contributing to Django

2011-02-02 Thread Vivek Narayanan
Hi, I am Vivek Narayanan, a sophomore undergraduate student from India. I am interested in contributing to the Django project, through GSoC (Google Summer of Code) or otherwise. I have been using Django for a while and have developed a few applications on social networking sites . I have