Re: Proposal for new field type: CompositeField

2009-12-24 Thread Jerome Leclanche
I like it, always wondered if there was a way to do this in the core. Hope the patch gets through. J. Leclanche / Adys On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Michael P. Jung wrote: > On 2009-12-24 19:45, Stephen Crosby wrote: > > In your address example, I'm not sure what advantage this > > Composit

Re: Ticket #8425 and USStateField (again)

2009-12-24 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 3:55 AM, James Bennett wrote: > On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 5:22 AM, Russell Keith-Magee > wrote: >> My concern with having two fields is that it introduces a false >> dichotomy. There aren't just 2 options here - potentially any >> permutation of the following list is possibl

Re: Proposal for new field type: CompositeField

2009-12-24 Thread Michael P. Jung
On 2009-12-24 19:45, Stephen Crosby wrote: > In your address example, I'm not sure what advantage this > CompositeField has over just creating an address model/table and > using a regular foreign key to reference it. You mentioned the need > to create a field composed of other fields which to me so

Re: Ticket #8425 and USStateField (again)

2009-12-24 Thread James Bennett
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 5:22 AM, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > My concern with having two fields is that it introduces a false > dichotomy. There aren't just 2 options here - potentially any > permutation of the following list is possible: While this is true, there are three common cases, which ca

Re: Proposal for new field type: CompositeField

2009-12-24 Thread Stephen Crosby
Michael, In your address example, I'm not sure what advantage this CompositeField has over just creating an address model/table and using a regular foreign key to reference it. You mentioned the need to create a field composed of other fields which to me sounds a lot like a regular one-to-many rel

Proposal for new field type: CompositeField

2009-12-24 Thread Michael P. Jung
Quite often I find myself in the need of fields composed of other fields. e.g. class AddressField(CompositeField): addressee = models.CharField(max_length=50) street = models.CharField(max_lenght=50) zipcode = models.CharField(max_lenght=10) # ... more fields he

Re: Add querystring helper methods to Page class

2009-12-24 Thread veena
Hi, I need similar functionality so I develop custom tag "qs" wich is not tight to paginator (I don't know if it is better or not) Used that way: params ... dictionary with query string parameters which was prepared in view p ... any amount of other query string parameters as key=value you want

Re: Ticket #8425 and USStateField (again)

2009-12-24 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 4:49 PM, James Bennett wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Russell Keith-Magee > wrote: >> I could live with either approach existing in the codebase. I won't >> express a preference, though - I'll leave the decision of which >> approach is preferable to those that w

Re: Ticket #8425 and USStateField (again)

2009-12-24 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Richard Laager wrote: > On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 11:44 +0800, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: >> This is completely backwards compatible as long as we keep >> "STATE_CHOICES" to the same subset that exists today. > > Yikes, that's really restrictive. You want that list to

Re: Ticket #8425 and USStateField (again)

2009-12-24 Thread James Bennett
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > I could live with either approach existing in the codebase. I won't > express a preference, though - I'll leave the decision of which > approach is preferable to those that will actually have to use it. Honestly, given both the controv