Django is really nice
Ok, I’m diving into Django. I’m gonna start by making a (simple) forum for our World of Warcraft guild, The Undutchables (nothing much to see there at this moment). Since we got about 50+ members in the guild, I think it would be interesting to see how Django holds up on such a low traffic site.
After starting simply (just following the same tutorial as I did the day before yesterday, only adapting it to the new programme), I’ve seen the first real problem. The tutorial has only one level nesting (a Poll-object which contains Choices), but my application has one more level (a Forum contains a Thread which contains Posts) and the admin interface (which Django creates almost automagically) doesn’t seem to handle this correctly. My objects are defined as follows:
class Forum(meta.Model):
title = meta.CharField(maxlength=200)
moderators = meta.ManyToManyField(auth.User)
def __repr__(self):
return self.title
class META:
admin = meta.Admin()
class Thread(meta.Model):
forum = meta.ForeignKey(Forum, edit_inline=meta.STACKED)
subject = meta.CharField(maxlength=200)
def __repr__(self):
return self.subject
class Post(meta.Model):
thread = meta.ForeignKey(Thread, edit_inline=meta.STACKED)
user = meta.ForeignKey(auth.User)
date = meta.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
content = meta.TextField()
def __repr__(self):
return self.content
Threads are displayed correctly, but the Posts are nowhere to be found. I posted a message describing my problem to the mailinglist. I hope they’ll respond quickly :)
