Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: django-enummodel
Version: 0.1.2
Summary: A Django application to bridge the gap between using enumerations and having fully-specified, normalized data models.
Home-page: http://github.com/yorkedork/django-enummodel/tree/master
Author: Thom Linton
Author-email: thom.linton@gmail.com
License: BSD
Description: ================
        django-enummodel
        ================
        
        ``django-enummodel`` is a small utility application designed to help bridge the niche use 
        case(s?) between defining enumerations for a given field (mutually exclusive options) and 
        fully specifying non-exclusive options as instances of a fully specified model type.
        
        In the common case, non-mututally exclusive options configured as a fully specified model
        (along with a fixture to store those options) can, in the best case, 'just work'; in the 
        worst case, it can provide mild headaches, notably when lazy translations are involved.
        
        In the particular case of the author, the challenge was to avoid having to cope with a 
        O(n) growth rate of fixtures to manage, coupled with the desire to avoid encountering 
        issues of internationalization and being forced to choose a particular character set 
        in which to store these values.
        
        ``django-enummodel`` provides a `Django`_ Model object with which the developer may extend 
        to provide the functionality sketched above::
        
          LANGUAGE_CHOICES = (
              (1,_(u'English')),
              (2,_(u'Spanish')),
              (3,_(u'French')),
            
              (255,_(u'other')),
          )
        
          class Language(EnumModel):
              class EnumMeta:
                  choices = LANGUAGE_CHOICES
        
        Please note that that population of any model derived from ``EnumModel`` takes place on
        ``syncdb``; therefore, changes to the choices basis will need to be rectified by running::
        
          django-admin.py syncdb
        
        .. _Django: http://djangoproject.org
        
        
        Release notes
        -------------
        
        0.1.2
        =====
        
        * Discovered incorrect package spec in setup.py
        
        0.1.1
        =====
        
        * Fixed issue with incorrectly registering and populating ``EnumModel`` derivatives.
        
        0.1.0
        =====
        
        * Initial release
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
Classifier: Environment :: Web Environment
Classifier: Framework :: Django
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License
