#django

I would answer you, but you seem to have gone away.

See the answer by Josh Smeaton on that page.

the save method of an imagefield needs an object that implements chunks(), the return object from sorl get_thumbnail() only implements read()

is there a wrapper in python for this case?

Hello

I have a somewhat newbie-ish question, but is there a straightforward way to mimic the admin interface filters and lists in a view or template?

pppoe_dude: generic views?

hello everyone

when i;m in a view and receive something goes wrong, like an exception is throw. then that same view gets called again with a get request automatically

why isnt an error gets throw on the screen

teewuane, yeah that seems to be the solution

but the admin interface already does it so nicely so i thought maybe there was a faster weay

jenia_, weird ..

jenia_, do you have any third party apps ?

ICheeseYou, yea

simple captcha

are you certain an exception is thrown in your view ?

in the beginning of my view i have if request.method=='GET': then return some message

yes

its the ValueError

so, when it gets throw, the view gets executed again, and that if statement is triggered

jenia_, try this in the if statement

import traceback; traceback.print_stack()

that will tell you who is calling the view... it might help

thanks

jenia_, also on the browser can you see the GET request occuring in Firebug or Chrome debug console ?

let me check

five minutes i need to trigger the mistake

good luck

ICheeseYou, sorry man. the server throws a message on the screen. i guess i wasnt concentrated properly and i didnt see the link in the js debugger. Thanks a lot, sorry for the time waste ;)

jenia_, no problem. i guess i helped ;)

yes you did.

if i have a form, that i process in a "POST view" and then when i processed that form, i do return render_to_response('example.html', {'some_context':c}, RequestContext(request))

then, the form remain the the context? like it never gets removed from the request?

jenia_: What does your whole view look like?

good evening--i'm looking for information about how to configure apache2 and my django site to host most URLs in a particular manner

i'll be glad to go rtfm so i don't waste anyone's time in here, but so far i haven't quite found what i'm looking for

Well, what specifically are you after?

to be brief, "/" and "/backlog/" are handled the same, by django... "/" could almost be like a 302 to redirect to "/backlog" but it might be prettier to just render that as my front page

i've told apache to just host everything inside of "/static" normally--i think this is typical?

Sounds like you just want to point two urlpatterns at the same view.

yep, and i think i got that working alright the last time i was working on this project

here's what i'm stuck on now

i've got little image galleries inside of /static, a couple levels deep

i'd really like to make... soft links? to them that show up as short urls

that is, example.com/fish would be a soft link to example.com/static/images/fish/album

How do you know that 'fish' is a valid image? DB data?

but the way i've got my urls.py set up now, django just throws up an error saying "/fish? what is that?"

maybe it's easier to just link to what i have

if you open that up, then hit the up arrow in the top left, you'll suddenly be navigating apache's auto-generated listings

and that URL is long and ugly

so i'd like that URL to be bailinphil.com/elicit

and when you hit that up arrow, it just goes to bailinphil.com, which django handles like i said before

when i was just throwing static assets up without django, i got what i wanted by simply soft linking into that deeper directory from my doc root

So what you're describing with the short URLs is basically a catch-all that you want to fall back to if a URL doesn't match one of your urlpatterns.

i think so, yeah

it didn't seem right to add more and more urlpatterns to handle things that are really just static assets

There's a couple places you can put this, you can define a catch-all urlpattern and put it at the very end of your patterns, or you could write a middleware method that catches 404s and checks the URL against your image gallery.

here's what i have right now

i'm not sure i follow your second suggestion

like i said, i'll be happy to go study, i appreciate your help but don't expect you to "do my homework" as it were

would it be a horrible idea to write code in urls.py that goes through my static/images directory and looks for these albums, then just generates the urlpatterns for anything it finds?

Yes. :)

You can do it with one view that just takes a string and checks for it.

phooey, i was just seizing on this part

where it says, "just python code, have fun kids!"

ah, so a last catchall url pattern which goes to a view

isnt' django book out of date and not recommended?

that view's logic is, "hmm, does this name match any album names in static/images? if so..."

google seems to think it's worth a top 5 result

i wonder if the way to say "hey go render that piece of static html" is to treat it like a template in my response?

this solution does seem suitably clean to me, doesn't involve any crazy shenanigans

thanks for helping me get pointed in a good direction

i appreciate that this channel is here, i suspect that was a lot easier than asking for help on stack overflow, because of how much storytelling was involved and how simple the answer will probably be

bailinphil: forums are usually more productive to be honest

this is the second resource recommended (after the faq) on djangoproject.com

where's the forum i should be searching first?

bailinphil: sorry i meant like stack overflow

bailinphil: some people spend hours and hours in here begging for help, when a post and waiting a night would get far more answers because the situation would be explained properly

yeah, i can bet

i'm trying to be as considerate as i can, and understand that it's no one's job to help me out

how long you been using django?

um, i got about 3/4 through the tutorial before feeling like i'd learned enough to start to get my hands dirty, the remainder was going to be on forms etc., which i don't need yet

Technodrome: actually you can get help fairly quickly here

depends on the issue dross

Technodrome: if you're a whiner and constantly ask over and over, you're going to get ignored

so i'm an experienced web dev who hates php, loves python, is trying to see how this thing works by building my personal site

dross: yes, but if you sometimes have an issue that is hard, its hard to explain so many times,

you would do better explaining it once on a forum of some sort

definitely, there's a time and place for both

Technodrome: then you wait for someone who is knowledgeable

noobs who come here expect everyone to be an expert, not everyone here is not

*not everyone here is an expert

dross: as you know questions get lost, most people don't back read logs for 3 hours