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Ban 1+N in Django 3 years ago

Writing things directly is tightly coupling code. Sometimes quite distant portions of it, i.e. database access and presentation logic. With ORM and some smarter lazy technics or introspection at least you can untie it, with hand written SQL there is no way. And the reason is strings are poorly composable. Unless you use some query generator, but then we are back to ORM-like something.

Ban 1+N in Django 3 years ago

Never used this, but I see that it provides a context manager/decorator, which you can use to "shield" any code. And also some shortcuts for DjangoREST or something.

Regarding extra code, you can simply replace the Djangos' `render()`, with the one from this lib and you are done. I would have probably made a custom template extension or something to do that for all renders automatically though too.

Ban 1+N in Django 3 years ago

I usually use `.values()` and `.values_list()` only when model creation is really slow. Usually many rows fetched.

Ban 1+N in Django 3 years ago

Should be easy enough to implement. You only need a context manager that adds 1 to some threadlocal flag on enter and subrracts on exit then check this flag in the monkey patch. Not sure how costly that will be though.

Ban 1+N in Django 3 years ago

cacheops can do the same, but it never came to my mind to actually go this way. I would rather write some special code to fetch with `id__in=[...]` and then cache individually.

Ban 1+N in Django 3 years ago

HN keeps automatically replacing the URL. It used to be a redirect before, but not anymore

There are sure some things I haven't covered. The major one is components, which make a big deal in factor, reuse and composition. But the post started to be too long and loosing point so I skipped it.

There are also ideas beyond React I left aside. I will probably write some follow up post later.

I've already emailed there, won't make a difference probably anyway. I hate this HN tricky rating, one my post got dumped from top 5 cause there were too many comments!

Reddit kind of saves the day :)

The first part of a post is mere reasoning showing how I got to the actual interface I use. @decorator works with `call` not with `func, args, *kwargs`.

funcy doesn't preserve function signature. The only way for now to do this is to use exec, e.g. compile code from source or AST, which I choose to avoid.

You will still need a wrapper function and update it's metadata. Which is even more boilerplate. Or you can hide that in base Decorator class, but then we'll back to another layer of abstraction.

So it's either more boilerplate or more abstraction. Choose exactly one.