[web2py] extending dal

2012-10-28 Thread guruyaya
Say I would like to create a project that uses eBay as a database. One of the things I'm dreaming of, is making ad hook storage engine, for the purpose of reading eBay listings. I'm not looking to hack DAL for this purpose (and make upgrades hard), but to extend DAL, and use it's built ins to s

[web2py] Extending DAL for spatial queries?

2010-10-20 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello, would it respresent a lot of effort to extend the DAL functionality to spatial capabilities? Examples can be found here: * http://www.geoalchemy.org/tutorial.html#performing-spatial-queries * http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/gis/tutorial/#spatial-queries Where could we sta