Opened 19 years ago

Closed 19 years ago

Last modified 17 years ago

#359 closed defect (duplicate)

Simplified assignment and lookup for related fields

Reported by: garthk@… Owned by: Adrian Holovaty
Component: contrib.admin Version:
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

Further to #122, I'd love to see a simpler syntax for direct assignment and reference of objects in related tables. It'd eliminate the last big separation (in my mind, at least) between how people work with normal Python objects and how they need to work Django database-backed objects. All you'd have left is .save(), which I'm all for keeping.

from django.core import meta

class Person(meta.Model):
    name = meta.CharField(maxlength=200)
    
class CourtCase(meta.Model):
    plaintiff = meta.ForeignKey(Person)
    defendant = meta.ForeignKey(Person)

me = persons.get_object(name__exact="garthk")
you = persons.get_object(name__exact="hugo-")
case = courtcases.CourtCase()
case.defendant = me
case.plaintiff = you
case.save()
print case.defendant.name

We'd also want to retain support for {{case.defendant_id = me.id}} for those who tend to think more in terms of the database structures than the Python structures. I'm definitely in the latter category, but I know plenty of people in the former.

Change History (6)

comment:1 by Manuzhai, 19 years ago

I agree this would be much nicer. I may look into implementation later.

comment:2 by rmunn@…, 19 years ago

I'd also like to see this happen. Since I'm about to drop off the face of the 'Net for at least a week, though, I can't commit to doing any work on the implementation. :-)

comment:3 by anonymous, 19 years ago

Owner: changed from Adrian Holovaty to anonymous
Status: newassigned

comment:4 by Adrian Holovaty, 19 years ago

Owner: changed from anonymous to Adrian Holovaty
Status: assignednew

comment:5 by Adrian Holovaty, 19 years ago

Status: newassigned

comment:6 by Adrian Holovaty, 19 years ago

Resolution: duplicate
Status: assignedclosed

Closing this ticket because it's been superceded by the DescriptorFields discussion.

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