Would be great.... This solution works great... but it's not accessible in the modules files, because dog is not visible there...
On 14 jan, 15:21, Massimo Di Pierro <[email protected]> wrote: > 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, MarcelloParra<[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...
