Re: [Web-SIG] SQLAlchemy Queries & HTML Data Grid

2010-04-07 Thread Randy Syring
It seems you want a sortable HTML table that talks to a back end query engine. I don't see why this needs to be specific to SQLAlchemy. Well...not just sorting though. Sorting, filtering, grouping, column selection, and paging. You are right that the backend does not need to be SQLAlchemy spe

Re: [Web-SIG] SQLAlchemy Queries & HTML Data Grid

2010-04-07 Thread Aaron Watters
questions or comments.    -- Aaron Watters --- On Wed, 4/7/10, Randy Syring wrote: From: Randy Syring Subject: Re: [Web-SIG] SQLAlchemy Queries & HTML Data Grid To: "Aaron Watters" Cc: web-sig@python.org Date: Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 1:37 PM Aaron, Sorry, I must n

Re: [Web-SIG] SQLAlchemy Queries & HTML Data Grid

2010-04-07 Thread Randy Syring
Aaron, Sorry, I must not really have explained clearly. This isn't an abstraction layer, but more like a UI component or widgit that facilities basic reporting. Look at these pages: http://www.redmine.org/issues http://trac.edgewall.org/query Both pages have a similar structure: * UI C

Re: [Web-SIG] SQLAlchemy Queries & HTML Data Grid

2010-04-07 Thread Aaron Watters
Thanks Randy, very interesting. My initial reaction is that you are building a stack on top of a stack. It's not clear to me what problem you want to solve and your requirements are.  It's possible that you could find it easier to abstract directly on top of SQL or alternatively you could conside