Opened 17 years ago
Last modified 13 days ago
#5929 closed
Allow Fields to use multiple db columns (complex datatypes) — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | Daniel Poelzleithner | Owned by: | nobody |
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| Component: | Database layer (models, ORM) | Version: | dev |
| Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | artagnon, Daniel Barreto, James Turk, glassreistor, ben.coughlan@…, ognajd@…, j.arnds@…, carlos.palol@…, cmawebsite@… | Triage Stage: | Accepted |
| Has patch: | no | Needs documentation: | no |
| Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
| Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description
Currently it seems that it is not possible to have complex db filds. For example:
Implementation of a IP model which actually should be a field type not a model. The implementation is not clean, because foreign key lookups for example do not work. The model maps for example:
NetworkAddress.objects.filter(ip__in="192.168.0.10/16")
into a complex query for a ip resisting in a network range.
Due the fact that model fields can only map to one db column, many complex data types can't be implemented. For example a ipv6 ip address which is a 128 bit value can't be handled by most db implementations of integer fields, so it has to be expanded to multiple columns plus a additional netmask column. Using varchar doesn't work because there is no way to search for network ranges or IPs in ranges, etc...
I think a field should be able to implement lookup mappings which can be overridden to implement complex datatypes as well as use multiple db fields.