Answered by the Godfather himself. Thank you, Massimo. Great explanation!
On Monday, January 2, 2017 at 12:25:54 AM UTC-5, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
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> In web2py you would do
>
> CLASS_TYPE = (('field1', 'Field1'), ('field2', 'Field2'))
>
> db.define_table('myclass',
> Field('type', length=12, requires=IS_IN_SET(CLASS_TYPE)),
> Field('name',length=10),
> Field('set','boolean',default=False),
> Field('isset','boolean',default=False),
> Field('enable','boolean',default=False),
> Field('source','reference source'))
>
> Then you can do
>
> rows = db(db.myclass).select() # kind of like MyClass.objects
>
> The difference in philosophical because:
>
> 1) In web2py methods maps 1-1 into SQL, in Django no
> db.table.insert(...)
> db(...).select()
> db(...).update(...)
> db(...).delete()
> 2) In web2py SQL TABLES are difference instances of one class Table, in
> Django each table is its own class
> 3) In web2py a record is a Row object (like a dict) while in Django a
> record is an instance of the corresponding class.
>
> The problem with the latter which motivated web2py is the results of joins
> and aggregates? What classes are those rows? In web2py they are always Row
> objects. They can contain columns from multiple tables or results of
> expressions that are not associated with any of the original tables and the
> syntax is always the same.
>
>
> On Sunday, 1 January 2017 15:04:25 UTC-6, LoveWeb2py wrote:
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>> Here is what I'm really trying to do:
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>> *class MyClass(models.Model): CLASS_TYPE = (('field1', 'Field1'),
>> ('field2', 'Field2')) type = models.CharField(max_length=12,
>> choices=CLASS_TYPE) name = models.CharField(max_length=10) set =
>> models.BooleanField(default=False) isset =
>> models.BooleanField(default=False) enable =
>> models.BooleanField(default=True) source = models.ForeignKey(Source)*
>>
>>
>> Then I could do something like MyClass.objects
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>> Does web2py have a similar function?
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>> On Sunday, January 1, 2017 at 2:15:46 PM UTC-5, LoveWeb2py wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm noticing a lot of different syntax such as the ManyToMany model,
>>> self.save(), and general layout difference.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know if there is a guide to port a django app into web2py or
>>> do I just need to learn django a little better?
>>>
>>>
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