thirdparty/google_appengine/lib/django/tests/modeltests/properties/models.py
author Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:41:01 +0000
changeset 458 e836e8914c8e
parent 109 620f9b141567
permissions -rwxr-xr-x
Added support for providing a custom params dict This has been a long outstanding feature request for tlarsen, luckily it turned out to be very easy to implement with the dict.merge utility method. To have custom _rights one should instead to the required access checks before calling the view method.

"""
22. Using properties on models

Use properties on models just like on any other Python object.
"""

from django.db import models

class Person(models.Model):
    first_name = models.CharField(maxlength=30)
    last_name = models.CharField(maxlength=30)

    def _get_full_name(self):
        return "%s %s" % (self.first_name, self.last_name)

    def _set_full_name(self, combined_name):
        self.first_name, self.last_name = combined_name.split(' ', 1)

    full_name = property(_get_full_name)

    full_name_2 = property(_get_full_name, _set_full_name)

__test__ = {'API_TESTS':"""
>>> a = Person(first_name='John', last_name='Lennon')
>>> a.save()
>>> a.full_name
'John Lennon'

# The "full_name" property hasn't provided a "set" method.
>>> a.full_name = 'Paul McCartney'
Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
AttributeError: can't set attribute

# But "full_name_2" has, and it can be used to initialise the class.
>>> a2 = Person(full_name_2 = 'Paul McCartney')
>>> a2.save()
>>> a2.first_name
'Paul'
"""}