#django

does rtfm.whatever no longer redirect to readthedocs? awww :(

yes

but where else should i search for help?

Oddo: with django-shop?

The code.

yeah, rtfs

nkuttler: exuse me?

+excuse

Oddo: read the fine source

I fully expect the shop's source to be suitably complex that it'd be easier to ask and hope for answer :)

nkuttler: i have been doing that for the last days but idont understand everything

Oddo: well, sorry, i've never used that app

nkuttler: no problem :D

Anyone know of a good media manager app that will grab meta data about media? like width and height of images?

-?

ejb: hm, what are you trying to do? pil/pillow?

I want a centralized media library and the meta data would just be a bonus

django-filer

ok

utter django n00b. trying to build an admin 'add' page for a table X that gets filled from a set of lookups -- admin should choose item from table Y, resulting in auto-populated choice lists from table Z based on Y, present those choices and a single field, resulting in a bunch of queries that finally fill table X. it's all very byzantine and can't be changed.

should I be trying to find some magic to make the admin templates Do The Right Thing? or should I be jumping directly to views and building this all out myself?

aah: build it yourself

aah: you'll be fighting the admin the whole way trying to get it to work

ejb: that's what I was afraid of, okay. thank you!

np. good luck

hm

I have to write a CSV file every time the database changes. Are signals the best way to do this? Seems to me I've got to catch multiple events that way. Is there a better/easier way?

aberrant: write to disk?

ejb: huh?

Do you have to write the CSV file to disk? What are you doing with the file?

yes

it's being written to disk

I would have a cron job

I need it to be done every time the db is changed.

so thinking about catching post_save and post_delete

what's using the csv file?

splunk

and a firewall

i have a settings.py and a local_settings.py that I import. I'd like to add to the template dir, but obviously doing it wrong. Can someone point me in the right direction? https://gist.github.com/TeckniX/6116709

aberrant: can splunk read the csv from a url?

ejb: not easily

and the firewalls definitely can't

Hopefully you don't actually mean a CSV of the whole database updated whenever any change occurs in the DB..

aberrant: make some view/url that spits out the csv and use this http://httpfs.sourceforge.net/

ejb: ew, no :)

mattmcc: actually, I do.

not the whole db, but most of the fields

That seems pretty terrible.

aberrant: do iiit

mattmcc: well, until someone (not me) writes a database backend that uses csvs, I'm sorta stuck

lolll

What is the firewall reading from this CSV?

And why is splunk too dumb to read from a DB? :P

mattmcc: it's a list of blocked IP addresses.

Ah, see, that's much more specific than 'most of the database'

mattmcc: because I'm using it in external lookups for splunk too.

We're getting closer to your real question.

mattmcc: it's all but 2 fields :)

my db has one model, with three fields.

oh

you can;t write a web service to spit it out

It would've been great to mention that first.

hm. sorry.

it can't read from a url?!

db is ip address, expiration date, and notes :)

fission6: nope.

doubtful

So yeah, if it's just one model, you can just do a post_save signal handler, however that doesn't always trigger (qs.update, for example)

aberrant: do you have to trigger the firewall to re-read the file?

the csv gets tftped to the firewalls

ok

ejb: yeah, that's done via snmp

why can't that same action dump the db?

still why a csv