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moritz_s: ok. Hmm, what way would you recommend? it's gonna be a REST API, so, split the non model and model there?

dukez: just write as if you were not using django, i.e. use some rest client lib and use that in some kind of DeviceConnector class

moritz_s: so let's say I have a django model for configuring a remote device, then I could just add a "virtual" field on the API side to that serializer that exposes the hardware status?

https://dpaste.de/hXGD - i want to place those two forms in a single template, with mixing some fields together, is there a way other than manually unpacking the fields?

dukez: I'm not sure what you mean. Essentially you should be able to do something like "device.get_status()" where device is not an Model instance but an instance of a class you wrote

And then you could have something like "MyDeviceOptionsModel.get_device()"

I simply have this, https://dpaste.de/4wbb

noregret: manually specifying all your fields doesn't actually accomplish anything. A form prefix is probably what you want.

moritz_s: why would I need a prefix? all fields are different

moritz_s: also, i don't think you understood my qestion

noregret: Well they are for now, I wouldn't rely on that.

noregret: That's possible. So why exactly do you have to manually specifiy all fields?

moritz_s: 'fields' is required to be there

moritz_s: thanks, I'll just add a rest-framework view that proxies the hardware and tie it at the API layer

moritz_s: "django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Creating a ModelForm without either the 'fields' attribute or the 'exclude' attribute is prohibited"

noregret: right, but I still don't get how that has anything to do with your question

moritz_s: you asked why i am specifiying the fields..

noregret: For me it seemed like your "solution" to your problem that I apparently haven't completely grasped yet was to specify all fields. I just wanted to make clear that that has nothing to do with using multiple forms in a template

mrhanky: my question is, i need two fields from the lower form to appear first then all fields of the first form then all fields of the second. that's what i meant by mixing fields. so i'm asking if it's possible without manually unpacking the fields and dealing with errors and the rest of the hassle

moritz_s: using 'fields' is not my solution ofc, i was just showing what i have

noregret: ah ok, now I get it. Since you're using the bootstrap template tag I don't think there is an easier solution than to specify them manually

moritz_s: so you're saying that {% bootstrap_field field %} will take care of that?

@noregret manaully unpacking is the way

noregret: I don't know what those tags do, so I can't tell you. You have to look into the docs of the package that provides those

vaibhav10jain: using https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/topics/fo... for around 50 fields is tedious..

noregret: you could pass a variable called "fields" in the context that contains all the fields in the correct order and then just do {% for field in fields %}do stuff{% endfor %}

moritz_s: "fields" being a list?

noregret: a list of bound form fields to be exact

im building a project where there will be alot of difrant heavy use chat rooms (text) what would u use

rabbit?

or stick with nodejs/socket.io

you may want to ask in #nodejs or #javascript

honestly the nodejs/socket.io has a good example in the Manning NodeJS book.

ill check that one

iGeni, just know you likely won't get many responses on that in a #django chan. ;)

Hi, Where can I find the details about the implementation of the ORM in django?

any links?

mighty_mosquito: Read the django source code?

mighty_mosquito, there's some basic grounding here, but it doesn't get into too many details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkwZ1jG3XgA

Knyght, mighty_mosquito that's a great video. Very lengthy and somewhat dry but good if you listen to it often.

hello guys

i have no experience about web. I have task to build a portal.I dont know what i should use or not.Flask or Django , which i should choose ?

hey there, I am having some trouble getting js to load on my pages from base.html. CSS seems to be loading just fine, and I have staticfiles loaded has anyone run into this problem before and what files should I post?

dcz: django has more things built in, so you can probably get it done faster. flask comes with more flexibility but needs more time