afraid I'm a Newbie when it comes to Django.
I have a list of Dictionaries which I want to use to populate a Tables2 table. I don't know how to adapt the list of Dicts to work in Table2 :( The website suggests:
import django_tables2 as tables
data = [
{"name": "Bradley"},
{"name": "Stevie"},
]
class NameTable(tables.Table):
name = tables.Column()
table = NameTable(data)
I can't figure this out! Also, I will be using this view with many different sets of data and so my keys will change over views.
Here's an example of a list of Dictionaries (note that below, the two Dictionaries have the same keys; this always happens in each view; it is just that in different views there will be different sets of keys):
[{'trial2_click': u'left', 'timeStored': datetime.time(13, 35, 5), 'runOnWhatHardware': u'bla', 'id': 1L, 'timeStart': datetime.datetime(2012, 11, 2, 12, 54, 58, tzinfo=<UTC>), 'trial1_RT': 234.1, 'approxDurationInSeconds': 123L, 'timeZone': u'UTC', 'expt_id': 2L, 'trial1_click': u'right', 'trial2_RT': 2340L}, {'trial2_click': u'left', 'timeStored': datetime.time(13, 39, 15), 'runOnWhatHardware': u'bla', 'id': 2L, 'timeStart': datetime.datetime(2012, 11, 2, 12, 54, 58, tzinfo=<UTC>), 'trial1_RT': 234.1, 'approxDurationInSeconds': 123L, 'timeZone': u'UTC', 'expt_id': 2L, 'trial1_click': u'right', 'trial2_RT': 2340L}, {'trial2_click': u'left', 'timeStored': datetime.time(15, 32, 59), 'runOnWhatHardware': u'bla', 'id': 3L, 'timeStart': datetime.datetime(2012, 11, 2, 12, 54, 58, tzinfo=<UTC>), 'trial1_RT': 234.1, 'approxDurationInSeconds': 123L, 'timeZone': u'UTC', 'expt_id': 4L, 'trial1_click': u'right', 'trial2_RT': 2340L}]
Would much appreciate anyone's help :)
solving my own Q, I found here a way of dynamically making a class at runtime:
Defining a dynamic model factory The basic principle that allows us to
create dynamic classes is the built-in function type(). Instead of the
normal syntax to define a class in Python:
class Person(object):
name = "Julia" The type() function can be used to create the same class, here is how the class above looks using the type() built-in:
Person = type("Person", (object,), {'name': "Julia"}) Using type()
means you can programatically determine the number and names of the
attributes that make up the class.
and my working code:
def getTable(table_name):
cursor = connection.cursor()
try:
cursor.execute("""SELECT * FROM %s,%s;""" %(table_name,'subscription_exptinfo')) # want autoincrement key?
exptData = dictfetchall(cursor)
except Exception, e:
''
attrs = {}
cols=exptData[0]
for item in cols:
attrs[str(item)] = tables.Column()
myTable = type('myTable', (tables.Table,), attrs)
return myTable(exptData)
def dictfetchall(cursor):
"Returns all rows from a cursor as a dict"
desc = cursor.description
return [
dict(zip([col[0] for col in desc], row))
for row in cursor.fetchall()
]
Create a Table
subclass for each type of table you want to display. By type I mean set-of-columns. For example:
import datetime
import django_tables2 as tables
[
{'trial2_click': u'left', 'timeStored': datetime.time(13, 35, 5), 'runOnWhatHardware': u'bla', 'id': 1L, 'timeStart': datetime.datetime(2012, 11, 2, 12, 54, 58), 'trial1_RT': 234.1, 'approxDurationInSeconds': 123L, 'timeZone': u'UTC', 'expt_id': 2L, 'trial1_click': u'right', 'trial2_RT': 2340L},
{'trial2_click': u'left', 'timeStored': datetime.time(13, 39, 15), 'runOnWhatHardware': u'bla', 'id': 2L, 'timeStart': datetime.datetime(2012, 11, 2, 12, 54, 58), 'trial1_RT': 234.1, 'approxDurationInSeconds': 123L, 'timeZone': u'UTC', 'expt_id': 2L, 'trial1_click': u'right', 'trial2_RT': 2340L},
{'trial2_click': u'left', 'timeStored': datetime.time(15, 32, 59), 'runOnWhatHardware': u'bla', 'id': 3L, 'timeStart': datetime.datetime(2012, 11, 2, 12, 54, 58), 'trial1_RT': 234.1, 'approxDurationInSeconds': 123L, 'timeZone': u'UTC', 'expt_id': 4L, 'trial1_click': u'right', 'trial2_RT': 2340L}
]
class TrialTable(tables.Table):
trial2_click = tables.Column()
timeStored = tables.TimeColumn()
runOnWhatHardware = tables.Column()
timeStart = tables.DateTimeColumn()
trial1_RT = tables.Column()
approxDurationInSeconds = tables.Column()
timeZone = tables.Column()
expt_id = tables.Column()
trial1_click = tables.Column()
trial2_RT = tables.Column()