Re: Django database-api

2012-04-03 Thread KasunLak
Hi, Thanks you very much for the informative answer! It clears all the questions I had in my mind. Because I have some idea to build a tool to draw the model (UML) --> Generate Django Model code --> and then we can deploy it to db. Moreover I was thinking that if it possible to customize (edit exi

Re: Django database-api

2012-04-03 Thread akaariai
On Apr 3, 11:27 am, KasunLak wrote: > Hi, > > No, sorry for not giving more details. What I am asking is once we > syncdb the generated scripts (create table). Can we see the method > implementation of database access api? > > For example: If we have created and deployed a model called Poll > (tut

Re: Django database-api

2012-04-03 Thread KasunLak
Hi, No, sorry for not giving more details. What I am asking is once we syncdb the generated scripts (create table). Can we see the method implementation of database access api? For example: If we have created and deployed a model called Poll (tutorial example in django site) p = Poll.objects.get

Re: Django database-api

2012-04-03 Thread Eugenio Minardi
Hi, Do you mean the SQL generated by your model? In this case you can use python manage.py sql APPNAME On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 8:45 AM, KasunLak wrote: > Hi all, > > I just wonder is there a way to browse/view the code of database api > methods generated? Is there any tool for this? > > Thanks

Re: Django database API - What is it good for?

2007-08-13 Thread TheMaTrIx
Also, if I'm not mistaken, when you use the database api, the input validation steps are taken care of by the framework, you don't just tell in the models what format fields should be in the database, but at the same time are telling the framework what input it should accept for that field. If a f

Re: Django database API - What is it good for?

2007-08-13 Thread Collin Grady
> >>> users = User.objects.filter(groups__contains="Staff") ? This line doesn't work because "groups" is a ManyToManyField, not a CharField, so __contains="Staff" doesn't make any sense. Something like users = User.objects.filter(groups__name="Staff") should work a little better :) --~--~-

Re: Django database API - What is it good for?

2007-08-13 Thread James Bennett
On 8/13/07, Amirouche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do you mean, I can't understand. OK, suppose you are running an online store, so you have a database table "orders", which lists orders customers have placed, and another "addresses" which lists the addresses to ship the orders to. To calcul

Re: Django database API - What is it good for?

2007-08-13 Thread Amirouche
On Aug 13, 3:19 pm, "James Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/13/07, sagi s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Surely not. It is... darn - Can I just use SQL and be done with it? > > Of course. > > But keep in mind that, when programming in an object-oriented > language, it's often more us

Re: Django database API - What is it good for?

2007-08-13 Thread James Bennett
On 8/13/07, sagi s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Surely not. It is... darn - Can I just use SQL and be done with it? Of course. But keep in mind that, when programming in an object-oriented language, it's often more useful to get back a set of domain-specific objects -- which requires using Djang