eventually we shoud have a way to remap table and field names that was one of the main reason for rewriting the dal.
On Jan 10, 10:51 am, Marcello Parra <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Massimo and all, > > I'm trying to use web2py for several projects of mine. > I always find a problem that should be solved if I could set the table name. > > Let me show an example... > > Suppose that I have this: > > db.define_table('person12345', Field('name')) > db.define_table('dog12345', Field('name'), Field('owner', db.person)) > > person12345 and dog12345 are names of the tables. > As they are already running projects, I can't change them... > > If I don't want to call a dog, dog12345 all the time, I could do this: > > person=db.define_table('person12345', Field('name')) > dog=db.define_table('dog12345', Field('name'), Field('owner', db.person)) > > This should work fine. > > But I can't do this: > person[1].dog.select() > > This should just work with: > person[1].dog12345.select() > > Is there a way to do this ? > > Thanks...
