[GSoC] Composite fields -- irregular status report #4

2013-08-15 Thread Michal Petrucha
Hello, Last week I finished an implementation of CompositeField with support for backend-dependent IN lookups. During the past few days I also added support for composite primary keys to the admin. The latest work is available in the soc2013/composite-fields branch [1]. As a reminder, the previou

Changes in Model._meta

2013-08-15 Thread Michal Petrucha
Hello, As part of my GSoC work [1] I did a refactor of ForeignKey whereby I turned it into a virtual field which creates an auxiliary concrete field to hold the raw value. As part of this, there are several changes that I did in Model._meta: 1) There are now more fields in _meta.fields, obviousl

CSRF protection question

2013-08-15 Thread James Roper
Hi, I'm a core dev on Play Framework, and I'm currently looking closely at our CSRF protection and making improvements, and so I'm looking carefully at what other frameworks do because when it comes to security, it's easy to miss something. I'd like to get a better understanding of the reason

Caching per request only.

2013-08-15 Thread Tuten
I am in a situation where if I can cache a variable for a particular request then things are easy, but I don't need it to be saved for ever...It should be like a variable which once added to the request will be available till the end so that duplicate queries can be avoided. like i save to requ

Re: Caching per request only.

2013-08-15 Thread Michael Manfre
This list is for the development of Django. Questions about about how to use Django are located on the django-users list. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/django-users Regards, Michael Manfre On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Tuten wrote: > I am in a situation where if I can cache a vari

Performance optimisations in the deployment checklist document

2013-08-15 Thread Marc Tamlyn
I think we should at consider mentioning the `cached_db` session engine in the performance considerations part of the deployment checklist. It's an easy setting to enable which does give a performance boost, although the hit caused by it is decreased now we have persistent connections. That sai

Re: Progress report: django-mssql for Linux

2013-08-15 Thread Larry Martell
On Wednesday, May 8, 2013 5:02:02 AM UTC-4, VernonCole wrote: > > Hello all: >I just want to let everyone know what has happened on this proposal in > the last little while. > > 1) The combination of a Linux (or Windows) database client with a Windows > proxy database server is up and runni

Re: Progress report: django-mssql for Linux

2013-08-15 Thread Michael Manfre
The code is still experimental and has not been merged in to the official django-mssql yet while a few bugs are sorted out. If you want to check it out, you can get the code from https://bitbucket.org/vernondcole/django-mssql-ado-merge/src. You'll also need the latest adodbapi because the version b

Re: [GSoC] Revamping validation framework and merging django-secure once again

2013-08-15 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
Hi Christopher, On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Christopher Medrela < chris.medr...@gmail.com> wrote: > *Progress.* > > - Deprecated `requires_model_validation` flag and `validate` method (both > `BaseCommand` members) in favour of new `requires_system_checks` flag and > `check` method. > >