CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2014/ch1a 8 os

Features

Object- Relational Mapper

Django has its own object relational mapper which eases database access. It facilitates writing of model classes directly in python. Model classes can be defined by sub-classing django.db.models.Model. Each attribute of this class corresponds to a database field. This makes it possible to use an automatically generated database access API.

from django.db import models

class Person(models.Model):
    first_name = models.CharField(max_length=30)
    last_name = models.CharField(max_length=30)

The database columns first_name and last_name are specified as class attributes and an id field is automatically added to the table.