from django.core.exceptions import FieldError from django.db import models from django.utils import simplejson as json from django.utils.encoding import force_unicode class Small(object): """ A simple class to show that non-trivial Python objects can be used as attributes. """ def __init__(self, first, second): self.first, self.second = first, second def __unicode__(self): return u'%s%s' % (force_unicode(self.first), force_unicode(self.second)) def __str__(self): return unicode(self).encode('utf-8') class SmallField(models.Field): """ Turns the "Small" class into a Django field. Because of the similarities with normal character fields and the fact that Small.__unicode__ does something sensible, we don't need to implement a lot here. """ __metaclass__ = models.SubfieldBase def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): kwargs['max_length'] = 2 super(SmallField, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) def get_internal_type(self): return 'CharField' def to_python(self, value): if isinstance(value, Small): return value return Small(value[0], value[1]) def get_db_prep_save(self, value): return unicode(value) def get_prep_lookup(self, lookup_type, value): if lookup_type == 'exact': return force_unicode(value) if lookup_type == 'in': return [force_unicode(v) for v in value] if lookup_type == 'isnull': return [] raise TypeError('Invalid lookup type: %r' % lookup_type) class SmallerField(SmallField): pass class JSONField(models.TextField): __metaclass__ = models.SubfieldBase description = ("JSONField automatically serializes and desializes values to " "and from JSON.") def to_python(self, value): if not value: return None if isinstance(value, basestring): value = json.loads(value) return value def get_db_prep_save(self, value): if value is None: return None return json.dumps(value)