Re: storing a list of arbitrary generic objects in a db field

2008-05-23 Thread Richard Dahl
This could also be done with Generic Relationships: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/models/generic_relations/ I use this for similiar object references. I also sometimes use intermediary tables between the base model and the generic_relationship to limit the types of objects that can

Re: storing a list of arbitrary generic objects in a db field

2008-05-23 Thread Peter Rowell
> Thoughts on this approach? I do this all the time. I call them objrefs (Object References). My syntax is ..id. If the model_name is unique across the project (which is normally true), then .id is also accepted. I also allow for .id.. I have three apps I am getting ready to post that make

storing a list of arbitrary generic objects in a db field

2008-05-23 Thread James Tauber
django-notification[1] is a django app for managing the notification of events like "Jacob has accepted your friend request" over multiple media (email, feeds, web page) regardless of which app was responsible for the app. At the moment the notification message is just a text field but