#django

I'm using FTP as a remote storage for my django app. How do I get sorl_thumbnail or easy_thumbnail (not sure if that's possible) to work with the remote storage?

terryleigh: You want to have Django use FTP as a storage backend?

or you are trying to upload your code to an FTP server?

monokrome: no just media files.

Static media files or ones that are user uploaded?

ones the user has uploaded.

Someone made this, but I don't know how well it works: https://djangosnippets.org/snippets/1269/

I definitely wouldn't recommend using FTP for that though

FTP is a terrible remote storage.

is there any elegant way of combining CreateView and UpdateView ?

rmwdeveloper: Not really, they're separate for a reason.

A combined view would be littered with conditionals.

true, thanks

But you can of course move common code in your two views into a mixin class.

mattmcc: is it alright to redirect to the updateview in the createview's dispatch method if the object exists?

rmwdeveloper: What's your actual use case?

Or rather, how would you determine that an object already existed when a user tried to create it?

mattmcc:i guess in the createview query the database to see if the object exists, and if it doesnt then redirect to updateview

right now,

What would it use for the lookup?

a foreign key thats in the request

mattmcc: Was it you who showed me how to use the redirect shortcut directly in a urlconf?

(or was it not even that shortcut..?)

i want to have one form that, if the object exists, route to updateview, if it doesnt route to createview

rmwdeveloper: So you could handle that in CreateView's dispatch method.

schinckel: Dunno..

mattmcc: thanks

maybe a more python related question, but hope someone will help ... I needed to write a view specific decorators for my app, and had views.py inside it, so i removed it, created views app (inside the mentioned app), pasted the old file contents into the __init__.py, and added decorators.py file with the decorators ... is this kind of structure used for this kind of problem?

Mmm. I was just trying to see if I could avoid writing a single line view function.

Doesn't lambda req: redirect(...) work?

Yeah, it probably will. I thought there was a way to do it even sneakily than that.

I know I can do this in plain python, and that it works, just wanted to ask if you do this in django

ust throwing it out there again... I'm trying to fix an issue (https://github.com/jakewins/django-money/issues...) in which I'd like to use django.db.models.sql.query.Query.names_to_path() to retrieve the final_field. It seems that the calling arguments to names_to_path() has changed between Django 1.6-1.7 (fair enough... it didn't even exist in 1.4-1.5), is there a backwards compatible way to retrieve the resolving field for a lookup?

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Hi folks, let's say I have a {{ books }} variable in my template containing..well.. a books queryset. Is there a way to check if book ID 7 is inside this variable?

simvez: That's not really the sort of thing you want to be doing in a template, more in a view.

If you already have the _instance_ in your context, you could do {% if book_7 in books %}, but it _will_ hit the database.

(even if you have already iterated over the books queryset, IIRC)

Schinckel : I know, but in my case the ID i want to search for comes from an MFTT tree. It's more like "if node.id is in {{books}}". I didnt figure out how to add stuff to the MFTT array yet.

why might one install a project into itself? i’ve seen `python setup.py develop` as part of installation steps in prjects before and can’t figure out what it’s there for

i’ve removed it and everything seems the same, but setup is twice as fast. seems like it might be some extra cleverness

when I create user with "user = User.objects.get_or_create(userName, userMail)", how do I know which order I should supply the arguments in?

CrowX-: hthy’re keyword arguments

(username=‘howdy’, email=‘howdy@yo.sup’)

oh

Mornin'!

alexhayes: what exactly are you trying to retrieve, and what have you already got? can you explain the problem you have a little better?

and I'll take a quick look to see if I can find anything

also - which django version are you targeting? 1.8 or a variety of versions?

euguhhhhhh the curse of the damn email

i don't even think this is possible, but this is whats happening to me currently

contrib.auth password reset form is successfully sending reset password emails to MY email address

(in fact to two of my email addresses)

but not to any other email addresses

using normal core.mail.send_mail() works all the time

so there must be something funky going on with the auth mail that i am not aware of

but then again, how is it only sending to my specific 2 email addresses :/

jarshwah: Targeting 1.4-1.8+

is there a way to set priority of password reset emails?

jarshwah: Essentially I'm trying to get the actual field that a lookup resolves to. For instance, lets say we have .filter(foo__bar__myfield=F('id')) I want to get the field that 'id' resolves to. I have the model, so it's a matter of traversing the model and it's relationships. I can do this manually but I thought it would be something that is accessible in the Django API.

would model._meta.get_field(expression_node.name) (or something similar..) not work ?

hmm expression nodes have changed significantly between 1.7 and 1.8, I should look further back

jarshwah: Perhaps, does that do the resolution if say for example: .filter(foo__bar__myfield=F('thing__balh__otherfield'))

(trying now)

also, that'll only work for F() based expression nodes.. they don't all have `name` attributes

if I have a User object how can I call on variables like username or password? I tried user.username, but that doesnt work http://pastebin.com/F26RAPzV

clandest: that *should* work, if `user` is actually a `User` .. can you show the view where you put user in the context?

Hi folks, let's say I have a bunch of "entries" with foreignkeys towards a "blog". Is there a way to modify the Blog model so that any query made to it will return an object with a blog.interesting_entries property? ("interesting_entries" would be a queryset of mine).

jarshwah: http://pastebin.com/c750jw06

jarshwah: Looks like it only operates on it's own model (ie.. doesn't traverse down)

jarshwah: I've almost got a working version that is creating a dummy Query(model).setup_joins - just feels very very dirty

yeah I was just about to suggest setup_joins, but I was comparing the signature across versions

jarshwah: yeh, it's pretty different

you're operating in private API territory here though :P

also... no guarantee it won't change in the future.

yes

if (1,4) < django.version < (1,5): blah ..

might be a way to do version specific stuff

1.8 expressions have a public API

but they no longer resemble anything before 1.8

Yeh I had heard/read about that. The tests in django-money only cover 1.4-1.6 however ideally I'd like to support 1.7 (as that is how I discovered the problem in the first place with my own tests)

in 1.8 you'd get an expression and check if expression.output_field.get_internal_field() == 'Money..'

Ok thanks!