On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 07:50:47PM +0000, Matthew Wilson wrote:
> I have an employees table and a departments table, and every employee
> has a foreign key to the departments table.
>
> 99% of the time, new employees belong to one particular department,
> "SALES".
>
> How can I make the SALES department the default department for new
> employees?
>
> I tried this:
>
> class Department(SQLObject):
> name = UnicodeCol(alternateID=True)
>
> class Employee(SQLObject):
> user_name = UnicodeCol(alternateID=True)
> department = ForeignKey(default=Department.byName("SALES")
>
> And it failed.
In what way? For .byName() to work Department.name must be an
alternateID column (which implies uniqueness).
This works for me:
class Department(SQLObject):
name = StringCol(default=None, alternateID=True)
Department.createTable()
Department(name='Directorat')
Department(name='Sales')
class Employee(SQLObject):
name = StringCol(default=None)
department = ForeignKey('Department', default=Department.byName('Sales'))
Employee.createTable()
Employee(name='slave')
Oleg.
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