Re: Doubt regarding JSON/SQL in Django

You almost certainly don't want to use JSON as your storage method. This is a database problem, and the Django ORM really shines at letting you solve it without having to think super hard about database modeling. You wouldn't create a table for each user's task list. You would create a model called Task, which is has a foreign key to your user model. The ORM then defines one table for all tasks for all users, and it's easy to get the tasks for a single user using the reverse relationship on the foreign key. You should really check out the Django project docs to sort through how this works.

The alternative NoSQL approach would be to make the task list for each users a schemaless document in a system like MongoDB, but to my mind, a simple task list is a good problem for straightforward, relational Django.

On Saturday, March 30, 2013 9:14:20 AM UTC-4, Parin Porecha wrote:

Hi,

I have just started using Django. I want to create a to-do task
manager application. Users would register, login and can work with
their tasks. So, instead of creating a table in the database for each
user, I want to create a JSON file for each user which will store all
his tasks.

Is there any way I can do this in Django ?
I mean, use the database only for authentication, and use JSON to
store data instead of storing it in the database.

Thanks,
Parin

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