Re: Issues saving hex format data to binaryfield

As you have editable = True, I assume you have read the code a bit. I
personnaly stopped reading after RegisterLookupMixin. If looking at
the code don't give you a solution, I would try to fallback to raw
SQL. That might be a skill more useful than the ability to update
BinaryField :)

2017-02-22 23:55 GMT+01:00 Brian O'Connell <boconn7782@gmail.com>:
> The database is pre-existing and I'm creating a Django web interface for it.
> This object holds the 8-digit hex output of the unique mfr identifier of the
> MiFare rfids. There are remote terminals that interact with database through
> psycopg2 and have no issue with that field.
>
> I could change the format in the database and recode those devices but I'd
> rather just write the correct format to the database than go through the
> trouble of changing multiple aspects of the system. I'm approaching on that
> threshold of time spent trying to find this solution to time it would take
> to update the entire system but I would much rather prefer to know how to
> write the binaryfield in general anyways.
>
> On Wednesday, February 22, 2017 at 2:10:33 PM UTC-5, Shawn Milochik wrote:
>>
>> Why not base64 encode it and just store it in a charfield? There doesn't
>> seem to be any compelling reason to store it in binary.
>
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