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tesseracter: look at existing widgets - copy them

tesseracter: ?

mattmcc: indeed you can

Hey! IT WORKED :)

subsume: django tax class?

Magus- Thank U 4:)

help

subsume, im making a tag widget, just wanted some confidence before i started. i hate working on something for 10 hours, then when i have a problem, i come on IRC, and someone says "just use *, it'll be done in 2 minutes" and i /facepalm

is there like a link_to functionality or shold i just use a href

tesseracter: story of my life

ned: and link_to is...?

Sunmaster_14: Do you happen to have the schema for these tables handy? I'm still a bit uncertain about how the relationships are arranged, based on what you've said.

Magus-: , insanekane: woot, it works

magus- it's a ruby on rails convention you use for ..linking to other objects

ned: What's the underlying DB concept that link_to represents?

subsume, wisdom comes not from what problems you face, but what you learn from them. i learned to make sure im not being stupid by checking at the start :-)

gordonjcp: good

mattmcc, an object referenced i suppose?

Magus-: a railsism

mattmcc: Not really. But there is a uid which is a unique identifier for each of the tables. Ideally I'd like members to have indices into both of the others.

something that's inherited

gridlock: I figured that

but whats it do?

I'm aware that i can use the related_name attribute, but it's still easier for my app if it's a real field.

makes an href

i think

I can't hardly present an alternative without knowing what it does :)

gridlock, yep

ned: Model inheritence?

yes

That's not in trunk yet.

the alternative i think is {{ myobj.get_absolute_url }}

time for a beer I think

not quite, gridlock

you can /make/ that an alternative

I still can't quite figure out how to get just one image from my model. I tried this adding a new method to Project that does this return Image.objects.get(project=self.id)

Am I completely off?

mattmcc, so i should just use an a href?

oh, looks like onetoonefield will do it for me

tesseracter: and one day so will I

ned: what does link_to do?

remember, we don't do rails

like if im on the artists list page and i want to go to their song page, and im linking to it, or something along that like magus-

Sunmaster_14: Well, the current onetoone is a bit iffy. It precludes one of the tables having a PK of its own.

....

you're not explaining anything

magus-, ignore the fact that i mentioned link_to okay

ned: Okay, that's not inheritence at all.

do you mean, say, it generates the URL for a view/function, so that you don't have to hard-code it?

mattmcc: oh. which table?

if so, just say that

its not hard

magus-, yes

THERE we go

that's one bit

and that's the other, for templates

oh, path.to was what i was looking for. thanks

Sunmaster_14: The 'target' table. But is it really a onetoone? An office only has one member?

the next time someone asks me to implement something like this, I'm going to do it all in hardware

path.to ?

what the hell is that

mattmcc: it is, since uid is a unique identifier and is the same for both

given a uid, you can find a member and his/her committee assignments.

and his/her office.

But multiple people can be in the same office.

No, these are elected officials. :)

Ah. More sense, it is making now. :P

Sunmaster_14: making a parliamentary information system ?

sort of, only it's the US. It's a legislative scorecard.

Storing vote data for legislators and giving them scores on issues.

Sunmaster_14: oh you mean, you making a privately owned website discussing the proceedings ?

Sunmaster_14: ok i get it

yeah, for a group called USPIRG

that cool. im making a PIS too ... only its for my state's legislative assembly ... and it uses RDF/Sparql

what state?

what are RDF and Sparql?

Sunmaster_14: the state of Kerala, in India :)

ah

insanekane: So the ORM is useless for you.. :)

isn't India a state?

mattmcc: not at all ... im doing a ton of other projects ... most of which I like and use the django ORM. (but for some, the ORM is pretty retarded)

insanekane: Well, for RDF is doesn't make much sense.

subsume: well ....

=)

mattmcc: yeah it doesnt

so i've got 'django.core.context_processors.request', in my settings and {{ request.method }} in my template. Why why why does it not show anything?

the auth context_processor magically works.

subsume: are you using RequestContext along with render_to_response ?

didn't realize i had to. the auth one doesn't require anything additional

subsume: if you arent, then context processors wont work

subsume: The magic is that generic views use RequestContext by default.

subsume: you should be using direct_to_template instead of render_to_response ... it handles the request context stuff for you automatically

subsume: render_to_response doesn't.

just like any other generic view