Re: [GSoC composite fields] Weekly check-in #1

2011-08-14 Thread Michal Petrucha
Short summary of last week: The first challenge was to make auxiliary field creation work with ForeignKey targets. The first attempt was to move parts of the model preparation mechanics to AppCache. This turned out to be a dead end because when AppCache is being populated, while importing models

Re: [GSoC composite fields] Weekly check-in #1

2011-07-20 Thread Michal Petrucha
The last week I've been looking into related fields and all that stuff. As it turns out, the issue is much more complex than I originally anticipated and at the moment I have some doubts whether this can be achieved as part of this GSoC. Basically, there are two approaches to the task: 1) Make

Re: [GSoC composite fields] Weekly check-in #1

2011-06-06 Thread Michal Petrucha
All right, time for another check-in. This isn't a lengthy one -- unfortunately last Tuesday my laptop failed me, leaving me with no replacement, which means I have to wait for it to return from the service center to be fully up and running. In the meantime, I managed to borrow an old one a

[GSoC composite fields] Weekly check-in #1

2011-04-29 Thread Michal Petrucha
Hello everyone, I hope the introductions aren't necessary since I've already introduced myself in the past [1]. Just a recap, I'll be working, under the guidance of Jacob Kaplan-Moss, on support for composite model fields which will allow users to define models with composite primary keys. The