Entries tagged with django

Django Patterns: Pluggable Backends

As the first installment in a series on common patterns in Django development, I'd like to discuss the Pluggable Backend pattern. The pattern addresses the common problem of providing extensible support for multiple implementations of a lower level function, be it caching, database querying, etc.


Generating aggregate data across generic relations



Self-referencing many-to-many through

How to implement self-referencing many-to-many relationships in Django. Example use cases are modeling asymmetrical following (a-la twitter) or symmetrical friendship (a-la facebook).


Looking at registration patterns in Django

Django uses several types of registration patterns for some of its most notable features. This entry looks at the way django implements its different types of registries.


Describing Relationships: Django's ManyToMany Through

In this post I'll describe extending many-to-many relationships in Django to support additional columns on the junction table. I'll be using the following table structure as the starting place. Imagine an RSS aggregator consisting of feeds, articles and categories. Articles come from a feed and may belong to any number of categories.